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"Greg Palast's Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed." 

We are just a few books short of bumping Bill O'Reilly on the New York Times list. Get it now, this weekend.

We don't have the Koch-suckers' ad budget. What we have is an answer to the most important question in America:  

"Why do we occupy?"

According to Prins....

"Vultures’ Picnic answers that question in dramatic detail and biting whodunit monologue and dialogue, the kind that could easily fill a riveting Mission Impossible film where Tom Cruise ricochets into the lairs of the bad guys to save the world from the big bad oil company. Yet all of Palast's and his team’s findings are shockingly true and infinitely more visceral." [Read the complete review here.] (Show me more...)

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!...

"Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfinger'? Greg Palast, author of the new book, Vultures' Picnic, investigates for BBC Television and The Guardian."

Greg Palast reporting from Kinshasa, Congo; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Brooklyn, New York

If God doesn't give a rat's ass about The Vulture, and what he does for a living, and what he's done for Africa, why should I?

The thought struck me while sitting here, coffee getting cold, in my old Toyota, trying to look invisible, staked out in front of 300 Dekalb Avenue. It's just after dawn here in Brooklyn, New York, and I'm hoping that Peter Grossman, a Wall Street star, will pop out of his posh brownstone for a jog or a cup of joe. Then I can jump him. He's on the look-out for me because I'd already jumped his crony, Goldfinger, the man who's making Grossman stunningly rich.

Grossman's riches, nearly $100 million for his firm, FG Management, come from the Congo. I was just there in Congo, two days before this stake-out, at a cholera quarantine center in the capital, Kinshasa.

Besides lots of cholera, Congo has lots of cobalt. Grossman has, through a crazy legal loophole in British law, waylaid a payment of $80 million to the African government for a shipment of cobalt from a government-owned mine.

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Alternet.org - From the Arctic Circle, from inside a whale carcass (really), Greg Palast investigates...

There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this:

In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of the Arctic Sea killed whales. It’s just what they do. It’s what they eat. But the Green People didn’t like that, and so the Green People set out one day in their fancy-ass black powerboat to stop the people of the Arctic Sea from doing their whale killing thing.

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This is Alternet's excerpt from Palast's new book, Vultures' Picnic.
Note: Get the book this week and you'll get all the videos from the interactive edition, no charge. Just go to VulturesPicnic.org, click on, "I've bought it, so send me the link to my free films."

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It was a long, long time ago in 1979. The elders tell us how the Green People showed up outside the Inupiat Native village of Kaktovik in their black powerboat and set out their stores of vegetables on the beach. The Green People only ate green food. The Green People then set off in their black powerboat on their blubber-saving mission, with a plan to block the Eskimo’s bidarka whaling ship. Quick as a Raven’s wink, they got lost in a fog bank and stuck in the ice sheet. Prepared, committed, and resourceful, the Green People set out their pup tents on the ice floe and slept, hoping for the fog to lift in the morning. (Show me more...)

This is it, folks - our last chance to make the New York Times bestseller list - we're doing well - but we want to slam it - we want to make sure that people can't miss Vultures’ Picnic when they go on Amazon, walk into stores and browse at airports.

Let’s make sure the media can’t ignore our book.

If you already bought it THANK YOU. Really, we can't thank you enough. But we're going to ask one more thing, think of your family. The Holidays are coming up - Vultures’ Picnic will make a great Xmas or Hanukkah present for that Uncle you'll end up arguing about #OccupyWallStreet with.

Besides being stuffed with tons of info and investigations on the 1%, Vultures’ Picnic also happens to be "Sardonically funny and entertaining ", as one of our readers aptly described it.

If you read my columns, watch my BBC or Democracy Now! reports, you’re just getting the news appetizers. The whole enchilada, the whole book, is tastier than you can imagine.

Go to Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble right now and write a review - (Show me more...)

Raven, that Lying Little Bastard
by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net

"If I had a machine gun, I'd kill every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka didn't say, "white." He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something, bleached seal.

As a bleached seal myself, I couldn't blame him, not if you saw what I saw, the documents that British Petroleum buried deep as they could.

In my investigation of the blow-out on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, I knew key evidence could only be found in the files in the hands of the Chugach Natives of Alaska. The story involved the usual mix of big oil, suicide, murder, rock and roll, and fish. Whatever, I had to get from Asia to Alaska. To understand the full story, how America went, in two centuries, from British colony to British Petroleum colony we have to go way back to ... (Show me more...)

by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo

exclusive for OpedNews.com

So big deal. They evicted us.  That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year.

Our photographer, Zach Roberts, had his camera cracked and his head whacked. [See the photo of the nightstick just before it breaks the lens.]

Go ahead, kick us and evict us. That won't stop us. Because it's not about the real estate. Wall Street's just an address.

Time to remind The One Percent why we occupy. (Show me more...)

2a.m. Zuccotti Park, Wall Street, New York

Zach D Roberts, photographer for the Palast Investigative Team, a split second before the copy cracked the lens––and whacked Zach. See that spot on the left? That's the night stick hitting the lens.

Tonight: Palast on "Why We Occupy."

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I'm putting it to you bluntly:

Vultures Picnic comes out today - and here's why I'm asking you, no joke, to get it TODAY, or this week at the LATEST.  Do that, and I'm once again on the bestseller list, top of Amazon.  It's the ONLY way the work you've supported, the work you think is important, breaks into the mainstream media.

And I'll make it easy for you.  You get a copy of Vultures Picnic TODAY or any time this week from our site, from an independent bookstore or Amazon or whatever, and I'll send you, as a thank-you, no charge, a private link to see ALL FIFTEEN FILM SHORTS and two audio tracks that are embedded in the "amplified" or "enhanced" versions. Check out a couple.

And you don't pay a dime.

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"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"
The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN

by Greg Palast
for FreePress.org

I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.

Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:

Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could "completely and utterly fail" during an earthquake.

"Utterly fail during an earthquake." And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure. (Show me more...)