For a while last night there was a rumour flying around Washington that General John Kelly, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, was about to resign.Having finally given up trying to control Trump, after the orange oaf sent a shiver around the world by claiming that it was "the calm before
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Montreal Simon: Is Donald Trump Preparing to Attack North Korea?
It seemed like a hopeful sign, a step away from the precipice of war on the Korean peninsula. And maybe even a chance to avoid World War Three. Rex Tillerson, the U.S. Secretary of State, announced he had opened up several diplomatic channels between the United States and North Korea. But
Continue readingAlberta Politics: With Rachel Notley off to Texas, it helps to understand why Canadians and Texans are naturally simpatico
PHOTOS: The magnificent Texas State Capitol in Austin – taller that the U.S. Capitol in Washington! Below: The interior of that Texas dome and some musicians making the scene in Austin, which is not only warmer than Edmonton, it’s more liberal too, and the sort of thing I had in
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Notley NDP’s latter-day conversion to Keystone XL boosterism
It has been fascinating to watch the Alberta New Democratic Party transition from being skeptical of oil pipelines as opposition to fairly effective advocates for pipelines as government. While the approval of the Trans-Canada Keystone XL Pipeline from Hardisty to… Continue Reading →
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Lessons From Rex Tillerson*
If Rex Tillerson, the former head of ExxonMobil and Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, taught a class on pipeline strategy Brian Jean would be stuck at the front of the room wearing a dunce cap and Rachel Notley would be excused because she already knows this stuff. Conservative
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Trump’s Hit List: NBC Nightly News
Media reports that Donald Trump is now railing against NBC Nightly News are not really surprising. After all, the truth can hurt. The network’s reports on his cozy relationship with, and profound ignorance of, Russia has raised the ire of the President-elect. Trump apparently didn’t like an NBC segment that
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Edelman Trust Barometer: Who do you trust?
The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer is here and it’s good news—unless you work in government or business in which case you’re facing what Edelman delicately calls “a significant trust deficit”. Edelman is a global public relations company that surveys trust levels across 27 countries by asking the public who they
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Exxon’s Love for the Poor
At Exxon Mobil’s annual meeting in Dallas this week, shareholders rejected a motion to set greenhouse gas reduction targets for the firm. CEO Rex Tillerson argued that such an extreme measure would hurt the world’s poor, stating, “What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?” So begins,
Continue reading350 or bust: Rex Tillerson: An Unlikely Climate Hero?
Doug Grandt, climate warrior and friend of 350orbust, is inviting Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon and Eagle Scout, to become a climate hero. The world is desperately in need of visionary leadership from business leaders as well as political leaders, as we stand on the cusp of catastrophic climate change.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Exxon’s Tillerson: Could We Really Have Expected a Tiger to Change its Stripes?
exxon.jpg By Cindy Baxter, originally published at PolluterWatch.org. When Greenpeace first began focussing on ExxonMobil's funding of climate denial, its CEO and Chairman was arch denier Lee Raymond. Raymond had spent years – and millions – on denying the science of climate change, both in funding right wing think tanks
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The New ExxonMobil: Has the Tiger Changed Its Stripes?
Private-Empire-ExxonMobil-and-American-Power-by-Steve-Coll.cover_.jpg For a decade, now, I’ve been a reporter on climate science. And one of my earliest stories was a Mother Jones cover, exposing ExxonMobil’s funding of think tanks that support climate denialism. The piece was actually nominated for a National Magazine Award. It got around. With this article and others,
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Dirty Energy Industry Front Groups Launch Misleading PR Blitz Against President Obama
gas price screenshot.jpg The American Energy Alliance (AEA) isn’t pulling any punches with their new advertising campaign, spending millions of dollars to air 45 million ad spots on Pandora Radio. They are attempting to hang the high cost of gasoline around the neck of President Obama, using a series of
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