ELIAKIM JOSEPH-SOPHIA : Burning Rubber

Wednesday 3 August 2011

Burning Rubber

I can smell burning rubber. So what do we have on burning rubber? This blog is a campaign for better tyres and take a look at the picture of the tyre? Do you see that the alloy is the star of david? [1]
The article was published in issue 50 of Green Fleet Magazine and 50 is the number of the Jubilee.

Burning rubber also applies to car races and the 12/8ths prophecy shared last year, regarding people signing their own death warrants.

The next grand prix is at the end of August. [2] The Turkish Grand Prix is expected to be dropped from next year's Formula 1 calendar, after teams were told it was no longer on the itinerary due to poor attendance.

Rubber also burns when the temperatures are very high, and the Texas event was postponed in June due to it. What is Texas famous for? The oil barons.

I am being given ECUADOR as I write this. So what is going on in Ecuador? After 17 years of courtroom battling, oil conglomerate Chevron was ordered to pay $8 billion towards damages affecting 30,000 locals. This order was reported on the 14th of February 2010. The engagement with God to write a 'Sonnet to God' on Valentines Day.

There appears to be a difference in the figures quoted. One news report states $8 billion, another quotes $18.

NEW YORK, New York, March 7, 2011 (ENS) - In a New York courtroom today, oil giant Chevron Corp. won a halt to enforcement of an $18 billion judgment for oil pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon imposed by a court in Ecuador. Granting Chevron's request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in Manhattan that Chevron faced "imminent" and "irreparable" harm to its reputation and business relationships.

"There is a significant risk that assets would be seized or attached, thus disrupting Chevron's supply chain, causing it to miss critical deliveries to business partners," Judge Kaplan wrote. [3]

Is it any surprise that the LORD God called the Americans no better than rent boys, and contemptible.

The lawless nation, and guess who gave Judge Lewis Caplan the job? President Clinton.

My view is that it was right that the court case was held in Ecuador and that the American court had no right to overrule it. The rubber will certainly burn Chevron and Judge Lewis Caplan with it.

Karen Hinton, a spokesperson for the Ecuadoreans and a defendant named in the racketeering case, said of Judge Kaplan's ruling, "This decision is a slap in the face to the democratic nation of Ecuador and the thousands of Ecuadorian citizens who have courageously fought for 18 years to hold Chevron accountable for committing the world's worst environmental disaster."

"The trampling of due process in the court's refusal to consider key evidence or hold a hearing to determine the facts is an inappropriate exercise of judicial power that will harm the United States' relationship with Latin America and other parts of the world," said Hinton. "It disregards the scholarly and comprehensive 188-page opinion of Ecuadorian Judge Nicolas Zambrano, a well-respected member of Ecuador's judiciary."

Crude oil in an open toxic oil waste pit abandoned by Texaco in the Amazon rainforest near Lago Agrio, Ecuador, April 15, 2010. (Photo by Caroline Bennett courtesy Rainforest Action Network)

After getting hit with an $18.2 billion judgment in Ecuador, the oil giant goes after the plaintiffs—and the Ecuadorean court system—in a U.S. court

"It also ignores key evidence that Chevron has committed a series of frauds in Ecuador to cover up its unlawful misconduct," she said.

Update from Business Week in July, 2011.

"Environmentalists and the government of Ecuador are siding with the plaintiffs. They argue that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who was appointed to the bench by President Clinton in 1994, lacks the authority to issue a worldwide order blocking enforcement of the verdict. In court filings, Ecuador’s American law firm, Winston & Strawn, asserts that “Judge Kaplan’s gratuitous belittlement of the Republic [of Ecuador]’s judicial system is a wholesale condemnation of the judicial systems of the entire Latin American region.”[4]