Tag: news

Jeff Sessions’ Financial Ties To ExxonMobil 

Jeff Sessions’ financial ties to ExxonMobil may be the reason he has expressed reluctance to prosecute the corporation for it’s role in suppressing Climate Change science. We talk with Jenny Rowland who specializes in climate change and energy issues for the Center for American Progress. Her latest article is How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.
You can read it here:

Then listen to my podcast down below:

Read More »

Scott Pruitt, ExxonMobil’s E.P.A. Pick 

Scott Pruitt is exactly who ExxonMobil wants running EPA. The Oklahoma attorney general has a long history of carrying Exxon Mobil’s water, especially when it comes to denying Climate Change. We talk with Jenny Rowland who specializes in climate change and energy issues for the Center for American Progress. Her latest article is How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.
You can read it here:

Then listen to my podcast below:

Read More »

The Rockefeller Family Divests Its ExxonMobil Stock

 

The Rockefeller family can trace their fortune all the way back to Exxon Mobil when it was essentially Standard Oil. But now the family is divesting its family fund from Exxon Mobil stock because of the overwhelming evidence that proves Exxon Mobil has hidden Climate Change science for more than 40 years. We talk with Jenny Rowland who specializes in climate change and energy issues for the Center for American Progress. Her latest article is How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.
You can read it here:

Then listen to our podcast below:

Read More »

Nostalgia For George W. Bush

Comedy writers David Sirus and Bob Powers get nostalgic for the Bush administration, Trump’s commitment to ignoring the truth, John Lewis, repealing Obamacare, the message Democrats should be sending to working class voters and Bill Kristol.

Then Jenny Rowland on her latest article How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.

Jenny is the Research and Advocacy Associate for the Public Lands Project at Center for American Progress.

Then Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, General Mattis, and tells us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.

Read More »

The Mattis Waiver


What is the Mattis Waiver? In order for General James Mattis to be confirmed for Secretary of Defense both houses of congress must pass a law reducing the number of years an officer must be away from the military in order to run the pentagon. Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to tell us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.

Read More »