1
POPSFake It! Big Oil asnd Big Coal's New Mantras If you can't find non-employees who support your issues, then have your employees "pose" as real people - tsk, tsk. I'd get real excited, except most politicla parties in US and elsewhere in the world have been telling employees to line up at rallies and paradesand act as if they are just "concerned citizens" forever. Tea Party right-wing Republicans have been doing the same thing in the non-debate about healthcare. I guess they all think we are just stupid - grin - now where did they get that idea?
4
POPSGrass Roots? Check again...
Who funds Americans for Prosperity? The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, …Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000). Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. Koch industries has made its money in the oil business, primarily oil refining. Presently, it holds stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, forest products, and chemical technology. Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil. According to ExxonSecrets, between the years 1998-2001, Citizens for A Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation received $380,250 from ExxonMobil.
9
POPSExxon sabatoages oil wells in Texas “When the relationship turned sour in the 1990s, Exxon-Mobil terminated the lease and plugged the wells,” states Patterson’s report. “As per state rules, Exxon filed paperwork with the Railroad Commission outlining its well-plugging procedures and filed sworn affidavits as to the final condition of the wells. The O’Connor family soon learned those reports to the Railroad Commission were fraudulent. “When an independent producer, Emerald Oil, attempted to capitalize on new legislative incentives to reopen abandoned wells, they found the old Exxon-Mobil wells hadn’t been plugged but sabotaged — filled with junk, cut well casings, contaminated oil tank sludge and even explosives. Many of the wells were left unrecoverable.”
2
POPSJames Inhofe, hero of the right wing This data shows exactly what industry has their hand up Inhofe's backside, in case some of you have been fooled into believing that his rhetoric is actually honest and unbiased.
0
POPSHow Low Can You Go for a "good" Cause Just take a look at the corporations listed as partners to the Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Everyone knows how concerned oil companies are about the environment whether in their drilling and transportation or fueling the cars, trucks and what all that are killing all living things including us!
6
POPSIraqi oil up for sale If the conspiracy theory that western oil companies egged on U.S. and British governments to invade Iraq were true, the plan could backfire on them and benefit rivals in Asia instead, he said, adding: “It is possible the American Army has provided the economic stability that will encourage Malaysian, Chinese and other Asian companies to become involved.”
0
POPSExxonMobil Financials Lying politicians use deceptive statistics to persuade ignorant voters to support bad policies. And, the main stream media doesn't help.
7
POPSChart o' the Day: Windfall Profits Gone Wild! Do you think our beloved mainstream media will report this news? Carpe Diem http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/08/putting-exxons-income-taxes-in.html Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Estimated Second Quarter 2008 Results http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/exxonmobil/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1001106&newsId=20080731005690&newsLang=en
9
POPSEarth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns
What to do, what to do? That's the question for the average citizen. Do we just inore this brilliant man or get leaders who will listen and act? During a speech at the National Press Club, he rambled, as if his ideas were sprinting well ahead of his words, but he kept an overflow ballroom audience rapt. Already, he said, the world’s safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has been exceeded. Yet, in the 20 years since he first testified, no major U.S. law restricting greenhouse gas emissions has been passed, 21 new coal-fired generating units have been built at power plants in this country and total U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide have climbed by about 18 per cent. He also accused corporate America of a “greenwash” in which their environmentally friendly words are not backed by actions and he supported criminal charges against CEOs of corporations such as ExxonMobil who are smart enough to know the situation but are intent on continuing their fossil fuel ways. “When their d
6
POPSJim Hansen Is At It Again......Ever More Desperate And Irrational It's the fact that money talks in Washington, and that democracy is not working the way it's intended to work." Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable. Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading.
1
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update