Saturday, October 20, 2012

'War On Coal' Label Obscures Reality During Presidential Campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/war-on-coal-label-president_n_1992365.html?utm_hp_ref=green



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What happened in Appalachia was the Exxon-founding-Rockefellers secretly bought up entire counties as the world's first billionaires. Charles Pratt sold the Pratt Company at Cold Creek and Paint Creek, WV, decades before but pretended that he still owned it. The coal companies on "Pratt's land" were struck by union organizers in 1912-1913 and the Rockefellers hired the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency to break the strike. There were home invasion murders and sniper assassinations ultimately breaking the unionization effort. In 1914 the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency was moved with their armored car and four machine guns to Ludlow Colorado to terrorize the coal strikers at a Rockefeller controlled coal company there -- ultimately leading to the massacre of 19 children, women and men in the striker's tent camp. The Rockefellers have been governors and senators of Appalachian states, mountain-topping for a never-ending greed binge.