Dead Soldiers, Peak Oil and Mind-boggling Profits; Praise Jesus the Machine’s Still Working
Mark Morford, The San Francisco Gate, February 6, 2008
Surprisingly moving Barack Obama music videos? The potential end of the writer’s strike? Cute young deer being saved by helicopters? No no no no no. Here are your most deeply inspiring news stories of the month:
A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new home sales across the nation are plummeting faster than Britney Spears’ serotonin levels. A nasty recession is either creeping or flooding in, depending on your perspective and how recently you purchased your home and/or tried to dump your Google stock.
Meanwhile, the largest corporation in the world, the one which has consistently raked in the largest and most appalling profits of any organization on Earth, a company so powerful and deeply influential to the machinations of our own nation, our government, the globe, so ingrained and unstoppable that no president, no administration, no nuclear warhead to its CEO’s home planet stands a chance of slowing it down or altering its behavior in any significant way because there is simply far, far too much money involved in its nefarious endeavors, has recently posted the largest profit of any company in American history.
Yes, the Exxon Mobil corporation sucked in a staggering $11.7 billion in a single quarter (more than $40 billion for the year, a new record for an American company) thanks largely to record-breaking prices for a barrel of oil, which are of course only record-breaking because, well, the Bush administration has essentially engineered the economy and launched a bogus war and desiccated the American idea exactly so they would be.
Oh Pish and Tosh and sometimes twaddle Exxon/Mobil is Your friend:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html
Not!
They are spending Millions every year to stymie alternative fuel research and discrediting
Geo-Scientist’s who speak out on Global warming.
Maybe this link will work for you,My computer says “no thankee”:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html
because I dont allow tracking cookies.
Cheers.
Comment by Rainlander — February 8, 2008 @ 1:55 am
Sweet Jesus, they’re raking in the kind of profits that would make a crack dealer blush.
I read last year that Exxon Mobil was having a hard time deciding what to do with all of their excess cash — here’s a hint: Why not help pay down the debt of your largest consumer market, since we were nice enough to sacrifice our kids lives and health to insure your price-per-barrel raise?
Comment by RS Janes — February 8, 2008 @ 8:37 am