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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: January 6, 2019, 2:24 pm
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Originally published on EVANNEX By Charles Morris
[center]Big Oil 🦕🦖 Tries To Kill The Electric
Car (Again)[/center]
January 6th, 2019 by Guest Contributor
Is this a conspiracy theory that can be dismissed? Not really.
The definition of a conspiracy is different actors working
together in secret. While the efforts of EV enemies — legacy
automakers, oil interests, and “conservative” governments — do
complement one another, as far as we know, they haven’t formed
any formal cartel (nor do the Lizard People, aliens, or Elvis
seem to be involved). And there’s not much secrecy about what
they’re doing. The efforts of oil industry–backed groups to hold
back the electric tide are well-documented, most recently in a
lengthy article in the New York Times.
The Trump administration has been working with auto industry
trade groups (openly, not in secret) to water down federal fuel
economy standards since before the president’s inauguration.
This is a legal process that will take many months to play out,
and advocates on both sides of the issue are working to sway
public opinion. As the Times reports, Marathon Petroleum, the
country’s largest refiner, has devoted much effort and money to
ensure that the standards get rolled back. Along with its allies
— oil industry trade groups and a network of conservative “think
tanks” financed by billionaire bogeyman Charles G. Koch —
Marathon argues that the US now has so much oil that it no
longer needs to worry about energy conservation.
“With oil scarcity no longer a concern,” Americans should be
given a “choice in vehicles that best fit their needs,” read a
draft of a letter that Marathon helped to circulate to members
of Congress. According to the Times, official correspondence
later sent to regulators by more than a dozen lawmakers included
phrases or sentences from the industry talking points, and the
US administration’s proposed rule rollback relies on similar
arguments.
Marathon Petroleum has also teamed up with the American
Legislative Exchange Council, a reliable opponent of
environmental regulation, to draft pro-industry legislation for
state governments. ALEC’s handy guide to the issue describes
current fuel-efficiency rules as “a relic of a disproven
narrative of resource scarcity” and says “unelected bureaucrats”
shouldn’t tell Americans what cars to drive.
Meanwhile, a major Facebook campaign — covertly run by an
oil-industry lobby representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, Phillips 66
and other oil giants — urged people to write to regulators to
support the rollback. The Facebook ads linked to a website with
a picture of a grinning President Obama and the question, “Would
YOU buy a used car from this man?” The site appears to have been
so effective that a quarter of the 12,000 public comments
received by the Department of Transportation can be traced to
the petition, according to a Times analysis.
The Times article documents the influence Marathon wields over
Trump administration officials and state lawmakers around the
country. The refiner was a major donor to former Oklahoma State
Senator and Attorney General Scott Pruitt, and its CEO, Gary
Heminger, met with Pruitt several times after he became Trump’s
EPA Administrator (Pruitt resigned in July, under the shadow of
at least 14 separate federal investigations).
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Agelbert COMMENT: Yep. The math for oil refiners
🦕🦖 is what dooms them when most transportation
becomes electric ⚡ powered. So, they come up with all
sorts of Orwellian yammering about the "low cost" of petroleum
sources.
The bottom line for refiners, that these Hydrocarbon Hellspawn
🦕🦖 just HATE to talk about 🙊, is that
you CANNOT refine crude oil without getting LOTS of liquid fuels
that Rockefeller had to dump in the rivers of Pennsyslvania
(killing horses and cows that were downstream) before he teamed
up with Ford to sell the waste product we know as gasoline (and
diesel).
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The fossil fuelers go BANKRUPT if their only products are
lubricants and feed stock for plastics, pharmaceuticals, and so
on.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: January 10, 2019, 6:42 pm
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over decades of records involving what it knew about climate
change and what it told the public.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: January 11, 2019, 5:11 pm
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[center]MOVIE REVIEW: VICE Underplays the “Evil” of Dick Cheney
🦖 – Wilkerson and Jay Review the Movie (1/3)[/center]
January 11, 2019
Cheney was the coming to power of the far right of the American
elite; the Neo-cons wanted to “cash in” as they asserted US
military dominance over the world – Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who
was Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff and is depicted in the film
joins TRNN’s Paul Jay to discuss the movie, “VICE”
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LARRY WILKERSON: Cheney was evil. And there should have been no
attenuation of an attempt to display that evil.
[TRNN INTRO]
PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay.
The recent movie Vice tells the story of Vice President Dick
Cheney, and also depicts the story of the roots of the Iraq War,
9/11, and more. It’s become a topic of a lot of conversation,
and tells us something about contemporary American politics. And
we’re going to be joined by a person who’s depicted in that
film, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, in a few minutes. We’re going to
talk about the film and more; about the context within which
Cheney operated. Here’s a trailer from the film.
[TRAILER]
ADAM MCKAY: I was always intrigued by Cheney, and I was amazed
by how much this guy had gamed the White House, how smart he
was.
So what’s the plan?
Well, the plan is to take over the damn place.
ADAM MCKAY: Henry Kissinger called him the greatest combination
of intelligence, ambition, and bureaucratic knowledge he’d ever
seen.
What’s it going to be? Yes or a no?
It’s a yes.
You don’t even know what the question is, do you?
ADAM MCKAY: He learns very fast, and his belief was in
consolidating power.
Are you even more ruthless than you used to be?
ADAM MCKAY: All these Shakespearean feelings come into play very
naturally.
Like a puppet show, but much more enjoyable.
Who wants to be an anonymous source?
Make sure you work in the phrase ‘We don’t want the smoking gun
to be a mushroom cloud.’ That focus grouped through the roof.
ADAM MCKAY: America had made a giant change from the late ’70s
on, and Dick Cheney was always in the middle of it.
Thank you, Congressman Cheney. I hear you’ve been quite the
ally.
ADAM MCKAY: This is the most mysterious character I’ve ever
worked on. He operates within the realm of legal exceptions and
he sees a longer game. He realized that real power doesn’t
reside in the spotlight, and quietly changed history as much as
anyone.
So we gonna do this thing, or what? I mean, is this happening?
Neither branch has oversight of the VP.
We can make this work.
[END TRAILER]
PAUL JAY: So That was Adam McKay, who is the writer/director of
the film Vice, leading us through it. Now joining us to talk
about the film Vice is Colonel Larry Wilkerson. Larry is a
retired United States Army soldier, former chief of staff to
United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Larry Wilkerson
is an adjunct professor at the College of William and Mary,
where he teaches a course on U.S. national security, and often
contributor to The Real News. Thanks for joining us.
LARRY WILKERSON: Thanks for having me, Paul.
PAUL JAY: So what was your–you went to see the film, I think on
the opening day with your family.
LARRY WILKERSON: Christmas Day, actually.
PAUL JAY: Christmas Day. And what was your first impression?
LARRY WILKERSON: My first impression was that the
attempt–understandable attempt–by those who made the film to
achieve a balance, largely by exploring the Cheney family and
some of the problems and challenges they had, but other things,
too.
PAUL JAY: This is Cheney’s gay daughter.
LARRY WILKERSON: The gay daughter, lesbian daughter, and so
forth. Make them look normal, if you will, at least in that
sense, was overdone. I understand, as I said, aesthetically,
artistically, why they wanted to do that. But it was overdone.
Cheney was evil. And there should have been no attenuation of an
attempt to display that evil.
I say that when I served chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Powell, and thought Cheney–and still do–one of the best
secretaries of defense we’ve ever had, if not the best, in the
short time that period’s been in existence, or that position’s
been in existence. But being secretary of defense and having
adult supervision–H.W. Bush, for example, a supremely confident
President, Powell underneath him, Jim Baker over at State, being
secretary of defense and being effective in that scenario is
very different from being vice president of the United States
with a president who doesn’t know his ass from the hole in the
ground. And so Cheney becomes a very different individual, and a
very evil individual.
PAUL JAY: And what do you mean by ‘evil’?
LARRY WILKERSON: I mean that his purpose, and his ability to
implement that purpose in secret and in the open, his skill, as
Kissinger well described it, as a bureaucratic entrepreneur was
used for purposes that were deleterious to and even in some
cases inimical to the extent of almost being existential to the
democratic federal republic that America thinks it is, and using
the national security state, essentially, to do that. And his
knowledge of that state made it doubly dangerous for this
country. I’m not sure we’re going to recover from this.
PAUL JAY: He was not unusual in playing that role, that kind of
sociopathic-
LARRY WILKERSON: I think he was unusual.
PAUL JAY: How about–how would you take Nixon to deliberately
extending the Vietnam War? We know this from the secret–the
taped conversations of Lyndon Johnson, where he tells Senator
Dirksen that Nixon’s virtually a traitor.
LYNDON JOHNSON: Some of our folks, including some of the old
China lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying
please notify the President that if he’ll hold out to November
the 2nd they could get a better deal.
SPEAKER: Uh-huh.
LYNDON JOHNSON: Now, I’m reading their hand there, but I don’t
want to get this in the campaign.
SPEAKER: That’s right.
LYNDON JOHNSON: And they oughtn’t to be doing this. This is
treason.
LARRY WILKERSON: I will give you that Cheney brings it to an
apogee. I will give you that Cheney is just one more element in
a transition from what we might have been prior to World War II
to what we are today. But I will also claim that he was not just
the denoument of that transition. He was the maker and deliverer
of that transition. It might have taken another 20 or 30 years
for us to reach the point we have now.
Just imagine, for example, had Powell run, Colin Powell run for
president in ’94, ’95, when he was contemplating it, and Cheney
and George W. Bush and the 2000 hanging chad election never
occurred. I think it would have put this off by a decade or two,
at least. I think it’s inevitable we arrived at this point. But
Cheney brought us to this point screeching at 70 miles an hour
plus. And as a result of that I think we’re going to have a real
hard time getting out of it, or maybe we won’t.
PAUL JAY: My critique of the film, and I appreciated a lot about
the film, I think certainly there’s a whole generation of
younger people that don’t know anything about this history.
Which is kind of weird, because we’re so immersed in it. It’s
almost like second nature that we know this history from 9/11
on.
LARRY WILKERSON: And my students now–remember, I started
teaching about 14 years ago. My students had–you might say they
were imbued with 9/11. Now my students were born or born after
9/11. And it’s strange to them. It’s a phenomena they don’t
recognize the way my initial students did, the first five, six
years. So it’s been very apparent to me what you’re talking
about in terms of the the ignorance. That’s not a pejorative,
it’s just a description of the ignorance we now have in this
country about these times. And that’s part of the problem, too.
PAUL JAY: My critique of the film is the balance between telling
this engaging story about this individual, Cheney. And he,
without question, as an individual plays a very important role.
But there’s also underlying forces going on, both in the
economy, the politics, the geopolitics that Cheney represents
these forces. And in the film itself it refers to this. Here’s a
piece from the film. We got a bit of a problem. Because of
copyright issues we can’t pull anything we want from the film,
but we do have the script. So here’s–early in the film, here’s
the basic thesis of the film. And it goes like this.
Narrator, a male in the late 20s: By all accounts of what people
saw in the room that terrible day–that’s referring to 9/11–there
was confusion, fear, uncertainty. But Dick Cheney saw something
else that no one else did. He saw an opportunity. Well, we’re
going to get into this 9/11 conversation a bit more with Larry
in a minute. But the script goes on.
There’s a famous photo, the picture they show in the film. It’s
a famous photo of men playing golf while the hillside behind
them is on fire. The narrator continues: As the world becomes
more and more confusing, we tend to focus on the things that are
right there in front of us while ignoring the massive forces
that actually change and shape our lives. Well, actually, that’s
kind of my critique of the film, is that he doesn’t really
explore the massive forces. It becomes the tale of Dick Cheney.
And there’s a context for Dick Cheney. Maybe the most critical
piece of the context is the starting point. And this is
described in a report that’s issued by the Project for New
American Century in the year 2000. The report is titled
Rebuilding America’s Defense: Strategy, Forces, and Resources
for a New Century. And that’s, as I say, a report for the
Project for New American Century in September 2000. And the
people that founded Project for New American Century include
people like William Kristol, Robert Kagan. Dick Cheney is a
signatory, as is Rumsfeld, who is also in the movie Vice. And of
course some other key people like Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle,
and others who were part of the Bush administration.
I think the starting point for understanding the context of
Cheney is understanding where the United States is in the world
where the Soviet Union has collapsed, and it’s essentially a
single superpower world.
The report states this: At present the United States faces no
global rival. America’s grand strategy should be to preserve and
extend this advantageous position as far and into the future as
possible. There are, however, potentially powerful states
dissatisfied with the current situation and eager to change it,
if they can, in directions that endanger the relative peaceful,
prosperous, and free condition the world enjoys today. Up to now
they have been deterred from doing so by the capability and
global presence of American military power.
And the report calls for establishing four core missions of the
U.S. military: to defend the American homeland, to fight and
decisively win multiple simultaneous major theater wars. Perform
the constabulary duties associated with shaping the security
environment in critical regions, transform U.S. forces to
exploit the revolution in military affairs, and most
importantly, increase defense spending gradually to a minimum
level of 3.5-3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding
$15-20 billion to total defense spending annually.
So Cheney emerges as a secretary of defense, and then later as
the vice president, in the context of a call to arms to take
advantage of the situation of being the single superpower to
dominate the world in a new way. In fact, they use language that
we no longer–and this is specifically in relation to regime
change in Iraq, which is one of the main things they push in
this report–is we don’t need to worry about a unanimous or
majority vote in the Security Council. We can do it ourselves
without the United Nations authorization. This is back in the
year 2000.
So, place Cheney in the context of this call to massively
develop arms expenditure. Cheney, before he’s vice president,
goes to Halliburton, which plays a role in all this. Sort of
help paint the picture for the context of Cheney’s vice
presidency.
LARRY WILKERSON: What you’ve just described–and interestingly,
what I was thinking as you were reading from the PNAC statement,
if you will–Caesar Augustus dictating how the Roman Empire is
going to be maintained and made even more powerful once he
assumed the mantle. I think there’s a bit of that there, but it
is long in the making. Long in terms of our history, anyway. It
begins in 1947, and it begins with the Cold War, of course. And
it begins with the apparatus, institutional and otherwise,
commercial, too, that’s built up around that twilight struggle
called the Cold War.
So what happens as we come to the end of that Cold War? Not only
are U.S. intelligence interests wrong; not only is there this
shock at the end of the war, because it comes screeching to an
end with Gorbachev and Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. Is we get a
president who is a Republican, George H.W. Bush, and who is not
in tune with this at all, much the way you might say from time
to time we had presidents in the Cold War who weren’t completely
attuned to what the people like Cheney at that time wanted to
do. We forget, sometimes, that in the National Security Council
we have archives that show us that people actually talked about
operating on the dark side during the Cold War. They used
Cheney-like language during that time. Most of the time they
were deemed crazy and they were put to the side.
H.W. Bush does the same thing. Wolfowitz sends a strategy which
reflects much of what you just said about maintaining American
hegemony–indeed, increasing it–over to the White House during
H.W. Bush’s term, from ’92 to–from ’88 to ’92. Bush says,
apocryphally or otherwise, I can see H.W. Bush and Brent
Scowcroft saying this: Send this back to the crazies in the
basement of the Pentagon. They don’t want to have anything to do
this. They realize that is imperial overstretch to the max, or
at least it will lead to that. Well, that’s not Cheney’s feeling
about it. He’s Bush’s secretary of defense, and he’s a very good
secretary of defense. But he’s got a supremely confident
president over him. He’s got Secretary of State Jim Baker, who
can check him at any moment. And he’s got Colin Powell beneath
him. So he’s got adult supervision. He can’t stray outside of
that supervision.
Once he becomes vice president, and all of these forces you’ve
just briefly described then find a fruition in his finding them
to be coincidental with his own interests at that time, he
becomes extremely powerful. And he’s extremely powerful not so
much because of what Kissinger described as we were listening to
the trailer. Those talents are there, sure. But he’s powerful
because he has a president who is a dilettante, is a president
who doesn’t know the first thing about national security. He has
a president who takes four, some would say five, years–he
finally fires Rumsfeld, for example, in November of 2006 before
he figures out what the vice president has been doing to him.
So this is a confluence of events and personalities and
characters, if you will, that hasn’t occurred in the whole
length and breadth of the Cold War, and suddenly occurs as it’s
ended, and becomes the principal developer of the national
security state, because it is there and it has Cheney to do
that. And I think it brings the national security state to an
ultimate fruition; a fruition that now says we’re an empire. We
will have perpetual war, just like Rome did, in order to
maintain that empire. We will have mostly a volunteer force to
do this, because we won’t call on our own people to do it. Oh,
my God, they wouldn’t want to do that. And we will have the
accoutrements of that war, the military-industrial complex,
people making money off of the war, people making billions off
of the war. Halliburton makes, for example, by one estimate as
much as $40 billion off Iraq and Afghanistan during the period
from the beginning to roughly the end of Iraq in 2011 or so. So
that’s what we’ve got today.
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LARRY WILKERSON: Yes. Yes. It’s stunning how much that has taken
over this country now.
PAUL JAY: And I don’t think the film tells that message nearly
enough.
LARRY WILKERSON: No, it doesn’t go into that message. Look at
the figures that were just released for the last 10 years on how
many four stars, how many admirals, full admirals, full
generals, how many three stars, vice admirals and lieutenant
generals, and others have left the Pentagon and gone straight
into six or seven-figure salaries with the defense contracting
business. It’s astonishing. We have built a state that survives
on making war, on killing other people for state purposes. And
it makes a lot of people very, very wealthy, and Dick Cheney was
one of those people who finished–put the finishing touches to
that state, and put it, put those finishing touches to it in a
very accelerated form, and made a fortune off it himself. I
mean, I’m told by some who saw his financial disclosure forms
that he went from somewhere around $4-5 million in personal
wealth to over $70 million. His protestations-
PAUL JAY: This is at Halliburton? Or after he’s vice president?
LARRY WILKERSON: This is after he’s vice president. So his
protestations to the contrary, Halliburton’s success in all of
these wars–Afghanistan, Iraq, and so forth–did, in fact, benefit
Dick Cheney.
PAUL JAY: Now, when we first started interviewing–and this goes
back now to I think 2010, we started, the first time we started
doing interviews–you said something which always stuck with me,
is that … You know, we were talking about your own progression
of your own thinking. And with the Iraq war it really hit home
for you how banal the motivation of much of this is. You know,
it’s just about moneygrubbing. It’s about getting rich, of
course about power, but power to get rich. You can’t separate
the two.
LARRY WILKERSON: My students sometimes have trouble with this.
Which comes first, the money or the power? And you’ve just
described it, I think, fairly accurately, in that they are
concomitants.
Powell said to me, standing on his front porch after he had left
the chairmanship–and we are standing on his new front–his new
multimillion dollar home. We’re staying on the front porch. And
I said, What next, boss? And he said, Well, I’m not sure. And I
said, you know, cabinet secretary, state, defense, maybe
president, or whatever? What are your plans? And he said, Well,
I’m not planning on running for president, but I do look at
Secretary of state or secretary of defense, and I have to make a
lot of money. I said, What do you mean? He said, in order to be
a cabinet officer in the United States today you have to be a
millionaire or better.
And I thought about that in terms of a black man, and I said,
well, maybe it’s because he’s looking at it from that
perspective. But then I thought about it in general terms, and
he’s right. He’s right. We don’t make people who aren’t either
going to be millionaires or who aren’t already millionaires
cabinet officers.
PAUL JAY: Because they have the right thinking, because they’re
defending their wealth.
LARRY WILKERSON: Yes, yes. They’re defending the realm. They’re
defending the system that we built up, which has, sadly enough,
become almost dependent on constant war in order to keep those
billions rolling. 😨
PAUL JAY: OK. In the next segment of our interview we’ll talk
more about the film Vice, and we’ll start getting into more of
the story of the film, which takes up the question of 9/11 and
the Iraq War. So please join us for a continuation of our chat
with Larry Wilkerson on The Real News Network.
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Solidarity protests erupt across Canada while Justin Trudeau
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British Columbia
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DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The
Real News Network from Montreal, Canada.
As The Real News reported last month, the Wet’suwet’en
Indigenous people of Northern British Columbia and Canada have
established checkpoints on their land to prevent pipeline
company TransCanada from building a gas pipeline across their
territory. The Wet’suwet’en people have never signed treaties
with Canada or otherwise ceded their lands, a fact confirmed by
Canada’s own Supreme Court in 1997 in a landmark decision known
as Delgamuukw. Several days ago, members of the Aboriginal
police liaison of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police met with the
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and indicated the specially
trained tactical forces would be deployed to forcibly remove
Wet’suwet’en people from sovereign Wet’suwet’en territory.
On Monday, January 7, indeed, armed police, some dressed in
camouflage fatigues, broke down homemade barriers at a
checkpoint on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory and arrested 14
land defenders. Following the arrests, and as reported by APTN
News, hereditary Wet’suwet’en leaders pledged to keep fighting.
Chief Madeek, Hereditary Leader of the Gitdumden Clan, declared
that “We may have lost this battle, but not the war.” Upon
learning of the arrests, civil society organizations from across
Canada called for a series of cross-country series of protests
in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people, and for the purpose
of denouncing the Trudeau government’s heavy-handed tactics on
the sovereign land of the Wet’suwet’en. Over 50 such protests
took place across Canada on January 8.
For The Real News, I attended one such protest in Montreal
outside the riding office of the Canadian prime minister
himself, Justin Trudeau. During the protest I spoke to longtime
activist Gary Engler, one of the protesters, about his reasons
for supporting the struggle of the Wet’suwet’en people.
Tell us your name, and where you’re from.
GARY ENGLER: Gary Engler, and I’m living in Saskatchewan and
Quebec, half and half.
DIMITRI LASCARIS: And originally, or at least for a long time,
you were from the West Coast. You were in British Colombia.
GARY ENGLER: I lived most of my life in Vancouver until quite
recently.
DIMITRI LASCARIS: You were talking a moment ago about the
differences from a legal perspective between British Columbia
and the rest of Canada when it comes to the status of the
Indigenous peoples. Explain what you were talking about.
GARY ENGLER: In British Columbia, except for a very small part
of the province, First Nations people never signed treaties.
That created a legal situation that … Basically, court cases
lasted for I don’t know, 40, 50 years. And this still in the
process of being settled. But in the early 2000s or late 1990s
the Supreme Court of Canada did decide in the Delgamuukw
decision that the Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en people had never ceded
sovereignty over their land and that they still were a sovereign
people, essentially. And now what exactly that means is still in
the process of being defined legally in British Columbia. So
it’s a very unique situation.
DIMITRI LASCARIS: And what–why did you come out here today?
GARY ENGLER: Well, I just think that Canada has been [i]so
rotten to its original people for so long[/i], it’s necessary
for anybody with a conscience to support people who are trying
to say this is our land, we’ve been here for thousands of years,
and we have rights, and you can’t just take it away from us
whenever you want to. I mean, that’s a pretty fundamental
problem that First Nations face, and anybody with a conscience
should be supporting them.
DIMITRI LASCARIS: On January 9, following the protests in
Montreal, the Prime Minister conducted a town hall in British
Columbia where he tried to reassure a rather skeptical audience
of his commitment to Indigenous rights.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: But we are making significant progress right now
in self-governance, in new relationships, in support that is
moving in the right direction.
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There are far too many Indigenous communities in this country
that are existing under boil water advisories, that are not
having schools to go to. Not getting parity in terms of the
money we invest in young people in non-Indigenous communities
versus Indigenous communities.
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TILLY (FIRST NATIONS WOMAN): Everything you benefit from is our
oppression and our suffering. You are afraid to lose your
comfort.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: No, I’m not, Tilly. I am ready to walk in
partnership with you and building the future, and that is what
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DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The
Real News from Montreal, Canada.
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CAPITALISM=INSANITY is destroying the biosphere:
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: January 25, 2019, 1:40 pm
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January 24, 2019 by Reuters
SNIPPET:
By Mark Bendeich DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The
world’s largest wind-power producer, Iberdrola SA, has brushed
off Big Oil’s embrace of renewable energy as “more noise” than
action. Major oil and gas firms have been venturing into
renewable power under pressure from climate-change policy,
collectively spending around 1 percent of their 2018 budgets […]
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Full article:
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: February 6, 2019, 12:31 pm
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February 02, 2019
SNIPPET: The U.S. and its allies have decided to throw their
weight behind yet another coup attempt in Venezuela. As usual,
they [img
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Full eye opening, truth filled article: 👍
[center]THE REAL REASON THE U.S. WANTS REGIME CHANGE IN
VENEZUELA
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By: AGelbert Date: February 27, 2019, 7:03 pm
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Learn more:
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Petroleum 🦕🦖😈 & curious decisions:
Episode 1/3
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: March 7, 2019, 5:22 pm
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March 6, 2019
[center]How Deniers 😈 Are Targeting Education[/center]
SNIPPET:
State curricula around the country are being targeted by
legislation directly boosted by climate denier groups, the AP
reports.
More than a dozen states have seen bills with ideological ties
to both the Heartland Institute and the Discovery Institute.
Several states' bills echo "model legislation" provided by
Discovery to encourage presenting "both sides" with regards to
science and climate. While some of these bills have already
failed, nonbinding resolutions encouraged by Discovery were
passed by Alabama and Indiana in 2019.
"You can’t talk about two sides when the other side
🦕🦖🐉 doesn’t have a foot in reality,"
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: March 24, 2019, 5:22 pm
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[center]Beto O’Rourke: Corporate or Progressive
Democrat?[/center]
March 24, 2019
O’Rourke is a member of the New Democrat Coalition, a caucus
with close connections to the finance, insurance and real estate
industries; Beto calls himself a progressive Democrat – with
Jacqueline Luqman, Norman Solomon and host Paul Jay
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Agelbert NOTE: Beto is a stalking horse for the Fossil Fuel
Industry. He will lie about EVERYTHING just to get elected.
Follow the MONEY that gave this crook all his support and you
will see through Mr. O’Rourke's BULLSHIT.
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