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. [applause] .. ♪ ♪

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>> all right. [applause] if you pick up a copy of "vultures' picnic," it is england's first truly film interactive book. and if you touch the top of each chapter, a film will appear just like that. my friends keep giving the good versions and punching the top chapter, but if you get this good piece of wood, copy of "vultures' picnic," you will miss those films, according to my publisher because you have to get the video interactive enhanced superduper ipad, iphone, whatever they have. they've asked me, there's a film

for every chapter top. you get to meet the people, get to see the photos, and my publisher because he has to spend two, three, four bucks extra for that, not to make those available for free because they said it's not our corporate policy, which means they've never read any of my books. so you can get them free when you get the book. just in the a note saying you are a friend of wpfw. my name is greg palast. i'm an investigative reporter. which i have to do for bbc television. "the guardian" newspapers in england, because session of its illegal to do investigative reporting under the patriot act's india states. you can still do that. you have three months. now, i want to thank, in fact, we all have to thank wpfw and

the pacifica network, your message of -- i want to thank c-span and booktv for letting me do it electronic wall, that's fresh. and i very much want to thank terry kester, the raucous, caucusing cari kester. don't miss issue. a real journalist journalist vernon avery brown. let's give it up for vernon avery brown. and my special guest tonight, our friends of the congo, thank you for being here. [applause] because we are going to talk about some of the enemies of the congo. and also greenpeace as i've invited them here tonight go and thanks for the submarine, really, they got me a suddenly. but guys, you better put it back

before someone notices it's missing. [laughter] now, oh, i have to warn you. my bosses at bbc television got a call last week about "vultures' picnic." a call from pole vaulter, paul the vulture singer. i didn't name the vulture. they call themselves vultures, with a smile. paul the vulture is with about 4 billion bucks so he had someone make the call for him. knuckle drag recalls up and says, to my bosses, before making a film with bbc based on "vultures' picnic" we have a file on greg palast. said we know, we've read it.

like vernon was an come yet, you want to see the file on the? i'll show it to you. site looks plenty what there's a very good journalistic reason, you read it here, took away, they can't smear me anymore. but that's not the point. the point is mr. sankar is not in the koch brothers come mr. sam is the number one donor to the republican party, he is the chief sugar daddy and advisor on the economy to mr. bromwich. he is mr. romney's billionaire. is not partisan because may purchase republican party but it does rent the democrats as needed.ne now, doesn't matter if he has a file on me.

the important thing tonight is i'm going to show you the file on him, okay? a file on me but the important thing tonight is i will show you the file on him. okay? for good reason. is mr. gold finger year? i invited his buddy gold finger. it is his fellow vulture investors their rally is a gold finger in the dc area. between the real gold finger and the james bond villain that this kind of girl scout compared to the real one. but now tonight there will occupy the airwaves.

you're brother-in-law says why do they occupy? what is this all about? they have no demands. of the $12 million pr firm to tell them a set of demands. i will tell you why we occupy. i was there yesterday. it is not about wall street. we do not dislike wall street is the piece of street. nobody calls -- cares about wall street. we care about those who occupy wall street beginning the 67th floor and up the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.

the gold fingers. it is not about the real-estate what wanted to do and what i have been doing is a four year investigation through bbc television on 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 something you can google. but there are documents. they are here. the photos of the documents, they are in the film but if you want to get a closer look, if you go to "vultures' picnic".org in go into the file cabinet. you will see the material we

are now adding the evidence you could see it as i would show it to a jury. if we had any laws like we used to. by the way what is in this? this document that is strictly confidential? at the top it says $5 billion. that was the bid that houston and light power, are reliant, they have all kinds of names. this is what they bid with shock construction to get the work $5 billion per reactor to get the guaranteed and nuclear planner that is cheap even though that is enough to have both been farm to have washington blown out which is not a bad idea. but at the bottom it says the two reactors are 14.2

billion dollars. wait. many of you have gone through the bush no child left behind education program relays saying half of 14 is seven. not five. $2 billion difference per reactor. that in my neighborhood is money. in the old days it was fraud. but here, something interesting about corporation people. if you commit a fraud, you go to jail. if you commit racketeering, you go to jail. i used to do racketeering cases. but if you are a power company corporation people including stoner webster operation

>> we follow him to the congo. i was just in the congo a couple weeks ago. that's why i'm with invited friends of con doe here -- congo here. because in new york friends of congo and occupy wall street crossed the brooklyn bridge. they went to 300 kalb avenue which is the office of f.g. hemisphere which is a company which got a piece of paper, supposedly owed by zaire to yugoslavia which doesn't exist, and from that they took $100 million out of the accounts of the congo. okay? because in the york last week those and occupy wall street crossed the brooklyn

bridge. where do we go next? they went to the office which is a company that got a piece of paper, add debt owed buy condos i year and from that they took $100 million out of counsel of pay? that is a story that payment of bosnia it is looking for criminal charges of the debt that should not exist anymore. go to the congo and i need to in go. he is a 14 year-old kid like my son. i have twins. who has cholera. in the 21st century? you get cholera from bad

water. water. it is pretty easy to fix. $1,200 you dig a well. congo sold $80 million of callable. it is sold when i went to the condo -- congo unicef planes coming in we will dig enough wells to give 40 million people clean water to end cholera. i said no you are not. because the vultures goldfingers group did and and this vulture fund turns out to be a two car garage. when we cross the bridge that is what holds $80 million of the condos wealth. that is where the clean

water when. it is a complicated story. what is he saying? i'm sorry. get the book. [laughter] you do. because you've really have to have something when your brother-in-law says i don't know what they are doing. i do recommend the hardbound book to educate them. [laughter] you cannot do that with the ipod. [laughter] you don't go to wal-mart. that is what the vultures do. in the case of zambia i tell you all of this is on the nightly news out there. under british law we have to

give this information we have to give all evidence to the targets of investigation. so? and tell us. bp did you coverup the blowout or did you bribe? they said we follow the rules. i said that does not sound like a denial. i am not hearing denial. the case of zambia zambia, $3 million was paid to this so-called favorite charity of the president chalupa. buy mr. goldfinger and his buddies. the president's favorite charities seem to be the president he took his money and follow the trail he took the money to his bank. of course, it is in geneva swaziland so we followed his trail and he stopped to go

shopping before he went to the bank and stopped into a boutique and spent about $1 million cash on 200 pairs of elevator shoes. 90 leisure suits. diamond studded ties. how do we know this? because this bad penny you will meet her in "vultures' picnic" she speaks about four languages quite fluid the 12 accent's and wonderful fashionable disguise his a.m. looks like a tv star so she can get permission to say we're from a reality tv show called a shot being with the rich and famous by eight -- speaking local alpine tour mysia switching to french and anybody rich and famous shop here? the president of zambia was it just year 200 per se

shares. we put it on the air. what this guy did was sign papers allowing goldfinger to basically pick up tens of millions of dollars. where does zambia get that? that is the money we gave them for aids medicine. nice. we try to ask about it here. we had a stake out. american television's stations don't do stake out. we do. we have to ask politely seven times will you please explain this to us? and if you don't we will do something american tv doesn't do. we will come to you. with the papers at dawn to ask you about it. so mr. goldfinger.

we put this on the air. we put this story on the air of endo this dolan securities from bosnia, the cholera epidemic. even where i met with the president of liberia. we're tracking another vulture fund i knew a woman of five fingers open hand i know the professor likes to play games with me one figure was inside her cabinet. there is somebody inside and they have good to cold. she got them. don't know which one but she got them.

we put this on the year. the british parliament all parties made in this culture activity illegal in britain. germany, holland, made it illegal. [applause] china you cannot collect this money. basically the entire civilized world and uncivilized. they have made this, they have made them outlaws. in other words, mr. romney billionaire and mr. goldfinger in the rest of the owe% and the rest of the world are outlawed, we are outlaws but in america their job creators. [laughter] that is why we occupy.

we it occupied for stanley mattingly in jason alexander come on the deepwater horizon for the chief and his sons. etauk. janessa under the pipe that exploded. and also a farmer in fukushima with a farm that is poisoned forever. and four endo and the cholera quarantine center. that is why we occupied because it is not about the real estate. it is not about tens or t.a.r.p. or any of that. it is about them and us.

and as i say in the book, just to read one little paragraph, there is only one story. that is what i am investigating. it is all one story. it is about them and us. they get home is bigger than disneyland we get foreclosure notices they give private jets and we get tarballs and lost futures and pay their gambling debts with our pensions. they get the third trophy wife and the tax break and we get subprime. they get to candidates and we're told to choose but they get the gold mine and we get the shaft. i will be signing books and answering your questions out there. go to "vultures' picnic".org this is about the information job creators or vultures waiting for us to die to feast? waiting for the economy is

to die to feast? i have not even got into the goldman sachs chapter. [laughter] that is what is inside "vultures' picnic" go to "vultures' picnic".org to download the first chapter. that is against my publishers corporate policy. download the first chapter spread the information around. because i want you to have the information about the 1% to answer the question why reoccupy. i want to mr. singer, a goldfinger in the rest of the gang and stoner webster no matter what shape they have shifted into, to know that the picnic is over. in fact, i agreed on one thing. i want him to get everything that is coming to him. [laughter] [applause]