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Well no one has heard about this large oil slick in the Mediterranean that is nearly the size of the Exxon Valdez?? Look at the video HERE!
Absolutely disgusting. Israel needs to be fined or should foot the cost of the bill to clean up the shore line. Probably too late to save those endangered turtles though. Look at that crab just covered in oil trying to wipe of the oil from it's eyes/eye stalks.
THIS is a crime.
They are invading a country to find a terrorist group, yet they are bombing oil refineries!?! Puh-leese.
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Bombing the power stations fuel supply from what I have found.
The western press sure didn't give this good coverage.
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Yes, the fact that we don't have a thread devoted to every discrete event taking place on or off the globe means we've surely never heard of it.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Yes, the fact that we don't have a thread devoted to every discrete event taking place on or off the globe means we've surely never heard of it.
Thanks, I guess you could start a thread for every cynical comment you have too.
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Bombing the power stations fuel supply from what I have found.
The western press sure didn't give this good coverage.
Israel wont let people in there to clean the area up!! Stupid. It's an eco-crime (if they haven't used that term before I am now). Those baby turtles covered in oil sludge - that is not on.
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Non-Oil soaked ecosystems function much better than those soaked in crude.
Still, after the Exxon Valdez, there seems little excuse for ships to be creating oil spills.
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I read the news daily and never saw anything on this, which is sad indeed, for I am either blind, which makes typig a problem, or the news feeds I have didn't send it.
Sol, what's got you in such a mood, your last few posts have been rather negative.
The equation is wrong, people < turtles.
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What, that people < turtles. I just like turtles better than people I guess.
Oh, you mean you seeming to be negative.
Let's see, you abruptly locked this thread, which I guess tainted the other posts you made. It was unlocked before I got a chance to send a PM to you asking WTF. Upon rereading them to remark on them now they weren't bad.
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Strange, the oil slick did get plenty of coverage here in Finland, and I never realized this wasn't yer standard globally-recycled-Reuters reporting.
I guess people<>turtles depends on the exact species, breed and stage of maturity. But the good old "keep the helpers from helping" trick is by no means limited to this oil spill. If Israel is going to bomb the roads sufficiently to prevent Katyusha trailers from being towed to firing position, those roads aren't going to allow food or water to be trucked in, either.
Another related good old trick is the triple volley, apparently also implemented here to good effect. First, hit the enemy. Wait for five minutes, then hit again to catch those who are helping the wounded. Then hit once more when the people at the receiving end think "they can't be so evil that they would do it again".
There's something of a discontinuity between the reality of war, and the international treaties that still stipulate that nothing bigger than .30 cal machine guns should ever be used on unprotected people.
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In positive news, the retired carrier U.S.S. Oriskany was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef, and was so thoroughly stripped and cleaned, there was no slick at all left to mark its passing.
I agree this spill is criminal, both in origin and in resolution (or lack of), it's annoying to me tha tall the news organs seem to focus on the gloom and doom, and the NICE things happening around the world warrent hardly an afterthought.
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