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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Climate Man
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Global Guerillas
The superempowered references are flowing for the man in the UK that shut down an electric power plant single handedly (without a boom):
Global Guerillas
The superempowered references are flowing for the man in the UK that shut down an electric power plant single handedly (without a boom):
The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading "no new coal". He walked out the same way and hopped back over the fence. All power from the coal and oil-powered Kingsnorth station in Kent was halted for four hours...
Mystified Greenpeace activists explain why they FAIL (ego and legacy protest thinking play a big part):
Should "climate man" ever show up, he will be feted for what activists say was the most daring individual action of the year. "We have no idea who he is - but we really want to know. Everybody's asking, 'Where were you on Friday November 28?'." /snap/ [link]Labels: Climate Man, coal, Kingsnorth, oil, powerstation
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Henry Okah: a superempowered individual in warfare
Global Guerrillas
-- Henry Okah is likely someone you have never heard about. Despite that, he is one of the most important people alive today, a true innovator in warfare: a global guerrilla.
Henry is a burly man who speaks with a cultured British accent, a consequence of his upper class upbringing and his education in Nigeria's private school system. His mind is an interesting combination of the discipline of engineering, gained through his experience as an engineer in Nigeria's merchant marine, and the believability of an arms salesman that once used worries about personal safety to sell handguns to private citizens. In short, it is a combination of attributes that made him the perfect guerrilla entrepreneur. [..]
Nigeria is a mess, due to the combination of legions of legendarily corrupt politicians, buckets of oil money, and vast pools of neglected citizens. The Niger Delta, the wellspring of Nigeria's oil wealth, is particularly messy. It's where people, abandoned by their government, are living at a minimal subsistence level just outside the fences of the major oil company compounds, which sport European levels of convenience and lifestyle for their expatriate employees. As a result, it's little wonder that the Delta's political environment is a swirling maelstrom of actors -- from tribal chiefs to military commanders to gangs (aka "cults" in the local parlance of the Delta) to local/national politicians -- all competing for a share of the Delta's abundant oil wealth. Here how Henry was able to leverage this environment: -- /snap/ [link]
-- Henry Okah is likely someone you have never heard about. Despite that, he is one of the most important people alive today, a true innovator in warfare: a global guerrilla.
Henry is a burly man who speaks with a cultured British accent, a consequence of his upper class upbringing and his education in Nigeria's private school system. His mind is an interesting combination of the discipline of engineering, gained through his experience as an engineer in Nigeria's merchant marine, and the believability of an arms salesman that once used worries about personal safety to sell handguns to private citizens. In short, it is a combination of attributes that made him the perfect guerrilla entrepreneur. [..]
Nigeria is a mess, due to the combination of legions of legendarily corrupt politicians, buckets of oil money, and vast pools of neglected citizens. The Niger Delta, the wellspring of Nigeria's oil wealth, is particularly messy. It's where people, abandoned by their government, are living at a minimal subsistence level just outside the fences of the major oil company compounds, which sport European levels of convenience and lifestyle for their expatriate employees. As a result, it's little wonder that the Delta's political environment is a swirling maelstrom of actors -- from tribal chiefs to military commanders to gangs (aka "cults" in the local parlance of the Delta) to local/national politicians -- all competing for a share of the Delta's abundant oil wealth. Here how Henry was able to leverage this environment: -- /snap/ [link]
Labels: arms sales, Nigeria, oil, warfare
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