Russian Oil Billionaires, Trump World, Russian Hacking, & Firing FBI Director Comey … For Democracy?
May 15th, 2017 by Zachary Shahan
Agelbert NOTE: This must read article has two videos and eye opening graphics about the true motive behind Trump and Republican profit over people and planet nefarious actions. Don't forget to feast on the full article at the link following the snippet.
SNIPPET:As much as we like to think of the United States as a clean democracy, one of our two political parties is all in with the oil & gas industry. Almost all political funding from the US oil & gas industry goes to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party, meanwhile, votes on energy, air, climate, and water issues as if it is a heartless Chevron robot voting on these things.The US is not a petrostate, but the Republican Party — which is now in control of the presidency, the House of Representatives, and Congress — treats any related policies as if the US is a petrostate (and should remain one).
For all effective purposes, what’s the difference when Republicans are in power? Think of the fact that longtime ExxonMobil CEO and “Friend of Russia” Rex Tillerson is now US Secretary of State (that’s not more suspicious than Hillary Clinton using a convenient private server set up for her former president husband, eh?), the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now Scott Pruitt (a man who let oil companies write letters for him to send to the EPA when he was attorney general of Oklahoma and who repeatedly sued the EPA), and the head of the Department of Energy (DOE) is a former governor of oil & gas state Texas who has financial ties to the oil & gas industry and vowed as a presidential candidate in 2015 to eliminate the DOE if he was elected president.
Does that not sound like a petrostate to you?
How would a petrostate kleptocracy act differently than the Republican Party and Donald Trump are operating today?
Despite all the hype about American patriotism and democracy, is it really a surprise that the oil-soaked Republican Party and Russia-friendly Donald Trump are acting as the political arm of ExxonMobil and Russia’s oil billionaires?
And is it really surprising that
Republican “leadership” in Congress has essentially let Donald Trump get away with firing Republican FBI Director Jim Comey just as the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia seemed to be heating up?
After all, as Susan wrote in December,
“What’s Good for Putin is Good for ExxonMobil.”Again,
bike or drive electric, and
don’t vote Republican — work to dismantle
oil-soaked corruption, kleptocracies, and autocracies around the world, including in the USA. It’s sort of a big deal.
MORE: https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/15/russian-oil-russian-billions-trump-world-russian-hacking-fbi-director-firing-democracy/