I’ve been in Kentucky these past few days, cooking and cleaning for my mother, who just had hip replacement surgery, so I’m a bit behind on the news. For the most part, it doesn’t look as though I missed much. Trump apparently alluded to a terrorist attack in Sweden that had never actually happened, and […]
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Plans to lift Russian sanctions continued to be refined even after the Trump administration was warned of Flynn’s illegal communications with the Kremlin
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged CIA, Devin Nunes, Exxon, FBI, Felix H. Sater, hip replacement, House Intelligence Committee, Kremlin, Kremlingate, Logan Act, Michael D. Cohen, Michael Flynn, national security, National Security Council, NATO, oil, Pat Maynard, Paul Manafort, Putin, Republican National Convention, Republican platform, RNC, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, witch hunt 12 Comments
It’s the piss that gets the press, but the leaked intelligence dossier also claims that Trump was offered a 19% stake in the Russian oil company Rosneft in exchange for lifting sanctions as President
As we discussed yesterday, an intelligence report assembled by a former MI6 operative in Moscow concerning Trump’s extensive ties to the government of Vladimir Putin went public thanks to Buzzfeed and CNN. These documents, which you really should read in their entirety, paint a troubling portrait of our President-elect. According to the as-yet-verified claims made […]
Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Buzzfeed, Carter Page, Christopher Steele, CNN, Donald Trump, Exxon, global climate change, oil, Orbis Business Intelligence, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, Rosneft, Russia, solar, treason, Vladimir Putin, wind 30 Comments
Of course it’s all about oil… Putin, Trump, and the campaign to keep the world addicted to fossil fuels
I’ve been struggling since the election to catch even a glimpse of the big picture. Like many of you, despite my best intentions, I tend to get swept up in the horror of the day. I want to look dispassionately at all the moving pieces and see if I can maybe find some logic in […]
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Aras Agalarov, big oil, Canada, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, dependency on foreign oil, DNC, Donald Trump, Exxon, fake news, FBI, hacking, Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey, Kazakhstan, Lindsey Graham, Michigan, Miss Universe, NATO, offshore drilling, oil, Party of Regions, Paul Manafort, Pennsylvania, Presidential politics, propaganda, Rex Tillerson, Trump Soho, Viktor F. Yanukovych, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Vladimir Putin, Wisconsin 45 Comments