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Vultures' Picnic

The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollyw.

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  • "Vultures' picnic"
  • "Vultures' picnic : in pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores"

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  • "Shares an exposé of the relationship between the oil and banking industries while arguing that such environmental disasters as the Gulf oil spill and Exxon Valdez can be directly linked to corporate corruption and failed legislation."
  • ""This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process---a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller--a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman--to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write--and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process"--Provided by publisher."
  • "The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollyw."@en

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  • "Frühstück für Aasgeier Wie Ölbosse und Finanzhaie die Weltherrschaft erlangten"
  • "Vulture's picnic"
  • "Frühstück für Aasgeier : wie Ölbosse und Finanzhaie die Weltherrschaft erlangten"
  • "Vultures' picnic"
  • "告発!エネルギー業界のハゲタカたち"
  • "Vultures' Picnic"@en
  • "Kokuhatsu enerugi gyokai no hagetakatachi"@ja
  • "Vultures' picnic : an oil rig explodes in the Gulf, Miss Badpenny slips into her leathers, and "the most important investigative journalist of our time" (The Guardian) goes on the hunt ; from the Arctic to the Islamic Republic of BP, from a burnt-out nuclear reactor in Japan to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Palast uncovers the story you won't get on CNN ; [in pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores]"
  • "Kokuhatsu! enerugī gyōkai no hagetakatachi"
  • "告発! エネルギー業界のハゲタカたち"
  • "Vultures' picnic : a Greg Palast investigation"
  • "Vultures' picnic : a Greg Palast investigation"@en
  • "Vulture's Picnic"@en

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