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On Dec 30, 4:19 pm, drylined <r...@d.mr> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:39:10 -0700, chatnoir <wolfbat3...@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://occupydenver.org/this-saturday-war-on-drug-march-rally-against...
>
> > This Saturday War On Drug March&  Rally Against Suncor
>
> > This Saturday 12/31 at noon we will be marching against the war on
> > drugs, and joining up with the Rally Against Suncor, Tar Sands and
> > Keystone XL Pipeline @ Skyline Park at 1pm.
>
> You forgot Sears, Brussell Sprouts, and E-470...
>
> > About The War on Drugs:
>
> > Like most wars, we think this one has done more harm then good and has
> > gone on for way too long. It needs to END!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Of course you do, OD is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pot Inc. dba Bong
> Industries.
>
> Uh...huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...
>
> > Alcoholism… Drug Addiction… These are HEALTH issues, not legal ones.
>
> Say that the next time a drunk driver kills your loved ones or a junkie
> burglarizes your home.
>
> > So why has money been endlessly poured into convicting drug crimes
> > rather than educating people and paying for treatment of these
> > conditions??!!
>
> It hasn't, it's gone into both, ever hear of D.A.R.E.?
>
> > Because there is BIG PROFIT to be made on the
> > enforcement of drug laws and the punishment for breaking them. Not to
> > mention big business/ government relationships with foreign cartels!
>
> Oh pulleeeeze...this ain't Mexico you ludites.
>
> > The War on Drugs has filled our prisons with nonviolent “offenders”
> > and has cost this country Billions. It’s been used to trample civil
> > rights and profit from misery all around. Drug addiction is a disease
> > that needs to be treated by medical professionals or any of the many
> > 12-step programs out there. It’s a giant waste of time and money to
> > treat addiction in jails and prisons.
>
> Which is why they don't currently treat it there.
>
> > Drug addicts are treated unequally, under current law. Rush Limbaugh
> > got a pass for gobbling down Vicodin and Oxycontin like it was
> > popcorn.
>
> Clinton claimed he never 'inhaled"...ikyabwai...
>
> > Then, he bragged about how he was morally superior to other
> > addicts, espousing how “poor” addicts go to prison. For once, he spoke
> > the truth.
>
> Poor thieves go to prison too.
>
> > There is a massive disconnect in our country between the reality of
> > substance problems and they are treated. But we now see who benefits
> > from the way it has been for so long.
>
> So go unlock the dopamine equation, stoner. Until then we will continue to
> have addictions.
>
> > About Suncor:
>
> > It was reported in late November that oil has been discovered in the
> > South Platte River.
>
> To go with the raw sewage from the homeless living along it, junkie's
> needles, and various other bacteria that have always been in it.
>
> > Very little coverage from the media was published
> > at the time of the discovery,
>
> No, that's a complete lie. Reuters had it out by month's end.
>
> > but, until recently, it has been
> > confirmed that gas-like sludge has been found on the edges of the
> > river. It is unknown how long this leak has been present in the water.
> > This water is a major source for drinking water, wild-habitat and
> > agricultural uses for the Midwest, but the water is now contaminated
> > and is non-usable for everyone and everything.
>
> No it isn't. It's a localized, small problem.
>
> > **Suncor Energy is the oldest tar sands producers, up to 90% of its
> > production comprised of tar sands bitumen. The company uses its
> > Colorado refinery to process some of the heavy tar sands coming from
> > the Express and Platte pipelines.
>
> So then Keystone XL wouldn't be necessary to get the stuff here at all
> would it?
>
> I mean I hate for you libs to have to look at a map and learn something
> but here goes:
>
> http://www.transcanada.com/keystone_pipeline_map.html
>
> The closest XL gets to Denver is Steele City, Kansas!
>
> And with or without XL Suncor WILL be processing oil, of some type and
>  from some origin.
>
> I mean that is their business, right?
>
> Selling gasoline?
>
> > The refinery, itself, specializes in production of synthetic crude
> > from the Athabasca oil sands located in Alberta, Canada, and the
> > Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, will obtain its own oil from the
> > Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, as well, which is located on Cree
> > First Nation land.
>
> Yeah, so?
>
> Has it like got cooties or something?
>
> Let me guess, you prefer the OPEC sludge from the raghead IED lands?
>
> > TransCanada proposed the pipeline back in 2005, and
> > they are based in Calgary, Alberta, as well as Suncor Energy. So,
> > there is a connection from Suncor to the Keystone XL pipeline and,
> > now, AIM and environmental activist groups are raising awareness in
> > Denver!
>
> Oh no, let me guess....as Denver's _only_ refinery they're buying oil
> coming from Canada?!?!?
>
> Scandalous I say!
>
> We should put them onto that good Venezuelan shit.
>
> > Although the Keystone XL is up in Canada, that doesn’t
> > necessarily mean that, here in Denver, we aren’t affected by the
> > devastating effects of the oil sands, especially, with the oil leak
> > that occurred in Commerce City.
>
> That refinery was known for problems back when Conoco owned it. It's had
> fires, explosions, etc.
>
> I mean that's what happens when you process flammable stuff, shit happens
> now and then.
>
> At least it didn't pollute the air and blacken the skyline like when
> Conoco owned the joint.
>
> > This leak has polluted the Sand Creek
> > and the South Platte River with gas-like sludge for an unknown period
> > of time, and Suncor needs to be held accountable for polluting the
> > air, water and ecosystems that are being affected directly by the
> > leak.
>
> Well why don't you see if maybe they are going to or already have handled
> this before you go all chicken little on us, eh?
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/30/us-suncor-leak-colorado-idU...
>
> Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:07pm EST
>
> (Reuters) - Suncor Energy said on Wednesday it has contained a leak near
> its Commerce City refinery in Colorado that was running into Sand Creek by
> the South Platte River.
> The Canadian energy firm said it had not yet identified the source of the
> leak, and it did not identify the substance leaking, but said it believed
> it came from their 93,000 barrel-per-day plant.
> "Our team installed booms in the creek to contain the product. That was
> done yesterday," said Sneh Seetal, a Suncor spokeswoman in Calgary.
> "Our focus is on cleanup at this point. We do not see more product
> leaking."
>
> > This is just a prime example of what will inevitably happen if the
> > Keystone XL is approved.
>
> Yes, we will from time to time have refinery leaks or pipeline breaks,
> that shit does happen.
>
> Are you moving over to horse and buggy any time soon?
>

http://dahrjamail.net/the-pipeline-of-poison

The Pipeline of ‘Poison’
By Dahr Jamail | Al Jazeera English | Published: October 17, 2011
The aftermath of a tar sands oil spill in Michigan has left a
community with sickness, anger, and loss of livelihood.


An underground pipeline owned by Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge
Energy Partners LP, began gushing into the Kalamazoo River area, and
the affected area of the river remains closed to this day (GALLO/
GETTY)
Deb Miller lives less than 30 metres from the Kalamazoo River in
central Michigan, site of one of the largest inland tar sands oil
disasters in US history.

In July 2010, nearly four million litres of toxic tar sands crude oil
gushed into the river following the rupture of the Lakehead Pipeline
6B belonging to Enbridge Energy Partners, a Canadian oil and gas
transportation company.

Meeting with other area residents at the office she owns with her
husband on the banks of the Kalamazoo, Miller describes the adverse
health effects she has suffered in the wake of the spill, including
migraine headaches, burning eyes, a persistent sore throat, and a
“cloudy brain” condition that she half-jokingly refers to as “Oil
Alzheimer’s”.


The Lakehead Pipeline 6B that burst was built in 1969 to transport
regular oil, not tar sands crude – which is as thick as peanut butter
and must be injected with chemicals in order to enable transportation.

The Michigan spill is Enbridge Energy’s largest to date in the United
States.

Outside the office window, oil cleanup workers wearing white Tyvek
suits arrive in a boat, apparently to collect samples from the silvery
sheen of the river’s surface.

The river has been closed for over a year.

Rashes and seizures

Despite grave health concerns among the local community, Miller told
Al Jazeera that she has yet to receive a visit from her county or
state health department.

Al Jazeera’s Witness investigates how residents of a
Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style
battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known.

Susan Connolly, a paralegal who resides in the nearby town of
Marshall, said her children showed signs of exposure immediately after
the spill occurred: “My son started vomiting and my daughter got a
weird rash five days into it.”

Read the full story at Al Jazeera English.