Her only revenge was to put up oil commercials thinking it really had an effect on her campaign. Maybe it did. All I know is that she was turning a wonderful show into an instrument that would elect a president dead set on war and the destruction of biota. See the two don't mix. Humans cannot destroy Earth and live on it at the same time. It makes no sense. As a child one thinks Earth is so huge it can 'take anything' humans have to hand it but as reasonable adults there is nothing further from the truth. Sharon's tandrums were astounding to me. They were not be considered legitimate until I realized she honestly couldn't handle her own temper in the control room. She was actually having 'hissy fits' while the program was progressing because I was so verbal about the content of the program and the detimental damage it was waging on the public. Finally, I came up with a strategy to combat some of her 'fits' - I called it "Oil Company Zingers." It illustrated entanglements with the Bush/Cheney administration and their chronic abuse of power and cronyism. I kept searching for more of these all the time and I would post them in exchange for adverse ads that would hurt Earth. This is a sample:
Oil company zingers
Zalmay Khalilzad
Ambassador to Afghanistan: Nominated by President Bush in September 2003
Project for the New American Century: Founding member
Khalilzad is a Washington insider with tight connections to several Bush administration figures and high profile neocons. Before being nominated in late 2003 to be the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Khalilzad served as President Bush's envoy to Iraq and Afghanistan and oversaw the Bush-Cheney Defense Department transition team. He worked closely with Paul Wolfowitz in the Bush Sr. and Reagan administrations, and has collaborated with the Project for the New American Century on its lobbying efforts.
Khalilzad's close connections to Islamic extremists in South Asia and to the oil giant Unocal have been the subject of sharp criticism. As Truthout opined in a 2001 piece, "Simply put, Khalilzad's appointment means oil. Oil for the United States. Oil for Unocal, a U.S. company long criticized for doing business in countries with repressive governments and rumored to have close ties to the Department of State and the intelligence community. Zalmay Khalilzad was an adviser for Unocal. In the mid-1990s, while working for the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Khalilzad conducted risk analyses for Unocal at the time it had signed letters of approval from the Taliban. The analyses were for a proposed 890-mile, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas pipeline project which would have extended from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. In December 1997, Khalilzad joined Unocal officials at a reception for an invited Taliban delegation to Texas." (4)
Despite his connections to the Taliban, which were developed when he aided the Reagan administration's anti-Soviet activities in Afghanistan, Khalilzad -- an Afghan native -- quickly changed his tune when Osama bin Laden's connections to the group surfaced. Reported Truthout, "Khalilzad's critics point out that Zalmay, who gave a speech upon his arrival in Kabul condemning the Taliban, had at one time, as a paid adviser to oil multinational Unocal, courted and defended them. Indeed, Khalilzad has changed his tune so often that one analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, Anatol Lieven, said, 'If he was in private business rather than government, he would have been sacked long ago.'" (4)
Several Afghans told the Washington Post that they disagreed with the Bush administration's decision to nominate Khalilzad ambassador to Afghanistan. According to the newspaper, although many Afghans see Khalilzad as a potentially stabilizing force in the region, "other Afghans, including opponents in the [Karzai] government, view Khalilzad's past association with controversial U.S. policies. … with suspicion. Some noted that in the 1980s he was an official hand-holder of anti-Soviet Islamic militias that later destroyed Kabul in a viscous civil war, and that in the 1990s, he endorsed U.S. accommodation of leaders of the extremist Islamic Taliban." (5)
· Project for the New American Century (PNAC): Signed PNAC's 1997 founding statement of principles as well as several PNAC sign-on letters (3)
· Friends of Afghanistan (Mujahedin Support Group): Former Executive Director (4)
· RAND Corp.: Former Senior Political Scientist (1)
· Transition 2001 Panel (RAND): Member (7)
· Ambassador to Afghanistan: Nominated by President George W. Bush in September 2003 (1)
· Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan: Current
· Special Presidential Envoy to the Free Iraqis: Administration of George W. Bush (1)
· National Security Council: Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues, 2001-2003 (1)
· Department of Defense: Assistant Deputy Undersecretary for Policy Planning in the former Bush Sr. Administration (1)
· Department of State: Associate, Policy Planning Council in the former Reagan administration (1)
Unocal: Risk analyst for the oil giant when he was at Cambridge Energy Research Associates in the mid-1990s (2)
· University of Chicago: Ph.D. (1)
· The American University of Beirut, Lebanon: B.A. and M.A. (1)
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BP presents Bush administration with alternative to ConocoPhillips tax incentive
Kristen Nelson, PNA Editor-in-Chief
The Bush administration asked BP to come up with alternatives to the gas price tax credit in the Senate version of the energy bill. In response, BP suggested a package: three things aimed at reducing pipeline costs — resulting in a lower tariff — plus a production tax credit, BP Exploration (Alaska)....
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U.S. Senate language from Phillips
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/727878402.shtml
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Russian Oil Giant Hopes ConocoPhillips Deal Will Help Iraq ProjectBy Sergei BlagovCNSNews.com CorrespondentSeptember 30, 2004
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200409%5CFOR20040930c.html Moscow (CNSNews.com) - Russia's top oil company, Lukoil, hopes that a U.S. oil company's acquisition of a 7.6 percent stake could boost its chances to retain a Saddam-era production-sharing agreement to develop Iraq's giant West Qurna fields.
Under the deal, ConocoPhillips' share will be limited to a 20 percent stake. The agreement also places limits on ConocoPhillips' right to sell shares in Lukoil for four years.
ConocoPhillips White House Lecture Series
Speaker Biography
Donald L. Evans
Don Evans is the 34th Secretary to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce. He oversees a diverse Cabinet agency of 40,000 workers and a $5 billion budget focused on promoting and advocating for American business, both at home and abroad. His Department also gathers vast quantities of economic and demographic data, issues patents and trademarks, helps set industrial standards, forecasts the weather, researches the oceans and oversees telecommunications policy. He is a key member of President Bush’s economic team, advising the President on many issues, including trade, business concerns, energy policy and overall U.S. economic policy
Secretary Evans has an aggressive agenda to get the job done. At the top of the list is trade. He worked closely with Congress to secure Trade Promotion Authority for the President so America can be a leader in the global marketplace. Since taking office, he has visited 21 countries and led trade missions to Russia, China, Mexico, Africa and South America to promote American exports and to open markets. In October 2003, Secretary Evans traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan to explore opportunities for commercial partnerships that will generate economic growth and development and help secure peace and freedom for the people there. He found the universities and technical institutes open, and the country producing more electricity than before the war. On the streets of both Baghdad and Kabul, he saw the entrepreneurial spirit flourishing. He returned optimistic about a future prosperous and free Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 1975, Secretary Evans moved to Midland, Texas, from Houston and was a “roughneck” on an oil rig for Tom Brown, Inc, a large independent energy company. Ten years later, he took the helm of the company as CEO and continued leading it until he was tapped by the President to lead the Commerce Department.
Secretary Evans is a self-described optimist who believes the highest calling in life is serving others. As a result, he has been very active in community service over the years. In 1995, he was appointed by Governor Bush to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas; he was elected Chairman of the Board in February 1997 and served two consecutive terms. He was a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation for eight years and a driving force behind Native Vision, a program that provides services to about 10,000 Native American children. He has been involved with the United Way for many years, serving as President in 1989 and Campaign Chair in 1981. He has been named Jaycees Man of the Year.
Secretary Evans has made significant contributions in local and national politics over the past 25 years, having worked on behalf of Governor Bush’s successful gubernatorial campaigns in 1994 and 1998, and serving as Chairman of the Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign. Secretary Evans says his passions in life are family and his friends. He is married to Susan Marinis Evans. They have two daughters, a son and a granddaughter.
Gas Price Surge Under Bush Follows Unchecked Refinery Mergers
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aI43GNSYkDDQ&refer=news_index
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush allowed an increase in oil refinery mergers to go unchecked since he took office and may have contributed to the highest gasoline prices in 20 years as the November election approaches.
The Bush administration approved 33 takeovers
Mondo Washingtonby James RidgewayGeorge Bush, Failed Corporate CrookNitwit Scion Turns AvengerJuly 10 - 16, 2002
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0228/ridgeway.php
President George Bush says he's outraged at the scams that have sent big-name companies crashing, and he's not going to take it anymore. Feeding the polls, Bush tells the nation he wants new laws to bring criminal charges against dirty-dealing CEOs who fake company books and destroy not only the public's trust but its savings as well.
Kerry, Bush Campaign After Feisty DebateSource: Associated Press/AP Online Publication date: 2004-10-09
http://phillips66.yellowbrix.com/pages/phillips66/Story.nsp
story_id=58371543&ID=phillips66&scategory=AP+Top+Headlines&
ELYRIA, Ohio - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, their animosity stirred by a contentious second debate, lit into each other over Iraq, jobs and debate performance on Saturday in critical battleground states.
Instant polls did not give either Bush or Kerry a clear edge in Friday's wide-ranging debate in St. Louis before an audience of uncommitted voters. But Republicans were heartened by what they saw as a steadier, more focused and aggressive performance by the president than in the first debate, where he displayed bouts of impatience and peevishness.
Kerry also criticized the administration for the shortage of flu vaccine.
Big Oil and James Baker Target the Western Sahara
By Wayne Madsen
allAfrica January 9, 2003
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/natres/oil/2003/0114bush.htm
In the midst of America's international campaign against terrorism, the Bush administration is permitting Big Oil to legitimize the illegal occupation of an invaded country--Western Sahara.
Formerly known as Spanish Sahara and invaded by Morocco in 1975 (the same year Henry Kissinger acquiesced to Indonesia's invasion and annexation of East Timor and India's annexation of the Himalayan Kigdom of Sikkim)), Western Sahara's occupation by Morocco has neither been recognized by the United Nations nor the Organization of African Unity. The latter actually recognizes the independence of Western Sahara's exiled Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which is headquartered in remote and squalid desert refugee camps on the Algerian side of the Western Sahara-Algeria border.
ExxonMobil/Esso
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?
Exxon is responsible for the fact that Bush did not sign the Kyto-treaty, Exxon is also a big donor of the Republican Party. This company is also responsible for a part of the CO2-polution.
Name: ExxonMobile
Esso gave $1.376 million to the Republicans in the 2000 election cycle - more than any other oil company. 91% of its political donations went to the Republicans. As soon as George Bush became president, he pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement to address global warming exactly the policy that Esso was promoting. As the USA is responsible for 25% of the pollution that causes global warming, this has a massive effect on the efficacy of the protocol.
Chairman and CEO: Lee R. Raymond
Postal address: 25 East John W Carpenter Freeway Irving TX75062-2298 USA
Phone number: not known
Fax number: not known
Website: http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/
Email address: postmaster@exxon.com
Important date(s): In 2001, the President of the United States Council for International Business(USCIB), from which ExxonMobile is a member, did write a letter to President Bush in which he asked US Government for the withdrawal of Kyoto.
Activities: exploration and production of oil and gas to the manufacturing and marketing of fuels, lubes and chemicals.
Bush donor: ExxonMobile is one of the sponsors of Bush. They are sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, ExxonMobile have given 2.470.000$US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 1st March 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org
Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Involved in oil production in Malaysia, Chile, Indonesia, Colombia, and elsewhere.
Damaging the environment: In March 1989 the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground and broke open, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound, Alaska. The US National Transportation Safety Board, investigating the causes of the spill, partly blamed the "higher-ups"at the Exxon Shipping Company for poor management. It also criticised the Alaska pipeline consortium, of which Exxon is a partner, for it's 'massive failure' in reposonse to the spill, which greatly contributed to its severity.
Five reasons to hate ExxonMobile: 1. Esso/ExxonMobil tries to convince the public that global warming isn't happening even though Esso/ExxonMobil is one of its main causes. It spends millions of dollars on misleading propaganda every year. 2. Esso/ExxonMobil has played a leading role in sabotaging international attempts to stop global warming. It would rather sell more petrol than protect future generations. 3. Esso/ExxonMobil doesn't believe renewable energy has a future. "With no readily available economic alternatives on the horizon, fossil fuels will continue to supply most of the world's energy needs for the foreseeable future." --Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil CEO, 1997 4. Esso/ExxonMobil is the biggest oil company in the world - its profits totalled more than US$12 billion in 2000. If anyone can afford to help stop global warming it's Esso/ExxonMobil. 5. Esso/ExxonMobil was one of the main financial contributors to George Bush's election campaign. As soon as George Bush became president, he announced that the US would pull out of international agreements to stop global warming - exactly the position that Esso/ExxonMobil was promoting. http://www.stopesso.org/background?text_id=whyesso
ExxonMobil and the pro-war lobby groups:
ExxonMobil has a record of funding right-wing industry front groups who lobby on their behalf to 'protect US business' and keep the US addicted to oil. It is no coincidence that many of these groups have an analysis of foreign policy that leads them to lobby for an attack on Iraq.
the American Enterprise Institute - a 'think tank' to whom ExxonMobil donated $230,000 in 2001.
Another pro-war front group funded by ExxonMobil is the Heritage Foundation, who received $65,000 from ExxonMobil in 2001.
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies received $135,000 in ExxonMobil funding in 2001.
In 2001 ExxonMobil also gave $20,000 to the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.
http://www.stopesso.com/pdf/tigerinthetanks.pdf
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ChevronTexaco
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?
Wherever they work, from Ecuador to Iraq, Nigeria and the US ChevronTexaco has demonstrated irresponsibility and lack of concern for public health, human rights, and the global environment. They have former director Condoleezza Rice on the inside and send millions every year to Bush Jr
Name: ChevronTexaco
Chairman and CEO: David J. O'Reilly
Postal address: ChevronTexaco Corporation, 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA
Phone number: +1 925 842 0050
Website: http://www.chevrontexaco.com/
Email address: comment@chevrontexaco.com
Important date(s): In 2001, Texaco merged with Chevron, forming the second largest energy company in the world.
Activities: ChevronTexaco is world's fourth largest oil company based in California, USA. They are drilling for oil in 24 countries, and their international holdings include refineries, petrochemical plants, and an international trading and transportation network. ChevronTexaco also owns gasoline stations and convenience stores around the world -14,000 in the U.S. alone. Operations continue in Colombia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Indonesia and elsewhere.
Bush donor: ChevronTexaco is sending millions every year to Bush Jr. From 2000 till now, ChevronTexaco has given 2.200.000$US to the Republican Party (figure calculated on 1st March 2004, source: www.opensecrets.org
Iraq War Profiteering: According to ChevronTexaco's own spokesman, "We still have an interest in Iraqi crude." Former CEO, Ken Derr said it best when he said, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to."
Lobbying against the Kyoto Protocol: Chevron and Texaco executives advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy. Parent company Texaco Inc is a member of the Global Climate Coalition.
Toxic Pollution: Wherever they work, ChevronTexaco has continued to place executive salaries and corporate profits over the health and safety of the community and workers. They have destroyed environment and contaminated local people with their toxic wastes in Richmond (California, USA), in Ecuadorian Amazone, in Nigeria, in Indonesia, and in the U.K.
Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Chevron has no moral thoughts to work with dictatorial regimes in Burma, Haiti, and Nigeria
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