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Jim Jordan leads GOP push to cripple 'fight against disinformation': report
Matthew Chapman
June 19, 2023,
Republican lawmakers are joining forces with far-right activists to attack universities and even private businesses that are investigating the spread of disinformation online — claiming that this amounts to an effort to silence conservatives on the internet, according to a report.
The New York Times posted a details of the actions they are taking on Monday.
"The effort has encumbered its targets with expansive requests for information and, in some cases, subpoenas — demanding notes, emails and other information related to social media companies and the government dating back to 2015. Complying has consumed time and resources and already affected the groups’ ability to do research and raise money, according to several people involved," reported Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel.
"They and others warned that the campaign undermined the fight against disinformation in American society when the problem is, by most accounts, on the rise — and when another presidential election is around the corner. Many of those behind the Republican effort had also joined former President Donald J. Trump in falsely challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election."
The House Judiciary Committee, under Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has been leading the charge. Meanwhile, a group founded by far-right former Trump adviser Stephen Miller has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court going after the same entities.
"Targets include Stanford, Clemson and New York Universities and the University of Washington; the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund and the National Conference on Citizenship, all nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations in Washington; the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco; and Graphika, a company that researches disinformation online," said the report.
"In a related line of inquiry, the committee has also issued a subpoena to the World Federation of Advertisers, a trade association, and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media it created. The committee’s Republican leaders have accused the groups of violating antitrust laws by conspiring to cut off advertising revenue for content researchers and tech companies found to be harmful."
The new push is part of a broader, years-long conspiracy theory among right-wing activists that the government and "big tech" companies are colluding to silence conservative speech on the internet. There is no evidence of any such conspiracy; in fact, research shows conservative content actually spreads more easily on Facebook and Twitter.
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There is no evidence of any such conspiracy; in fact, research shows conservative content actually spreads more easily on Facebook and Twitter.
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deported to death: US sent 138 Salvadorans home to be killed
by Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College At least 138 people deported from the United States to El Salvador since 2013 have been killed, according to a new report by Human Right
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Deported to death: US sent 138 Salvadorans home to be killed
President Donald J. Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, at the InterContinental New York Barclay in New York City. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Written by The Conversation February 7, 2020
by Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
At least 138 people deported from the United States to El Salvador since 2013 have been killed, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch, which investigates human rights abuses worldwide.
The 117-page report also says researchers identified at least 70 deportees who were sexually assaulted, tortured or kidnapped. Many victims were asylum-seekers attacked or killed by the gangs they originally fled.
The findings show that “the U.S. is repeatedly violating its obligations to protect Salvadorans from return to serious risk of harm,” Human Rights Watch says.
The group used court records, police reports, interviews with victims and their families and news articles to document the fates of deportees. It is the first systematic effort to find out what happened to Salvadorans whose asylum claims were rejected in U.S. immigration courts because they failed to demonstrate “credible fear” of violence in El Salvador.
International asylum laws created after the Holocaust require countries to take in people who are persecuted for their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
El Salvador has one of the world’s highest homicide rates. It is one of the main sources of migration to the U.S.
As part of its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration in September signed an agreement with El Salvador requiring the Central American country to keep asylum seekers there while they await the results of their asylum claims.
But the murders of 138 deportees belie any notion that El Salvador can protect citizens who are under threat.
Roots of impunity
Roughly the size of New Jersey, El Salvador is densely populated and highly connected by cellphone service and social media. The vulnerable groups protected under international asylum law cannot easily go under the radar or relocate if targeted by gangs, corrupt police or domestic abusers.
Hundreds of Salvadorans are killed every month. Murders, disappearances and tortures almost always go unsolved in El Salvador. Criminals, especially those with access to power, are rarely punished for their wrongdoing.
I have documented this culture of impunity across Central America and Mexico, focusing on the indigenous people, women and political dissidents who are so often victims of political violence.
This violence dates back centuries, to Spain’s bloody conquest of the Americas. As in the U.S., colonial-era brutality has lasting impacts on the region’s race, class and gender divisions.
In 1932, the massacre of indigenous Salvadorans and leftists who rebelled against dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez left between 10,000 and 30,000 dead.
Communist Party member Farabundo Martí, who led Salvadoran peasant farmers in their revolt against political corruption and unjust resource allocation, was assassinated after the massacre. But the struggle continued.
By the 1970s, dissident factions again organized against state oppression. United as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, these groups eventually waged war on the ruling ARENA party, which they blamed for oppressing the Salvadoran working class.
The subsequent Salvadoran civil war killed 75,000 people. In 1992, with intensive military support from the United States, ARENA defeated the rebels.
The 1992 El Salvador peace accords, overseen by the United Nations, were meant to bring national reconciliation. A truth commission documented widespread human rights abuses committed by state and paramilitary forces during the war. But days after the report was released, in 1993, El Salvador’s ARENA-controlled congress passed an amnesty law that excused most government and military officials.
As a result, the root causes of El Salvador’s conflict – particularly, unequal access to insufficient resources – still plague society. So does the very weak rule of law that allowed civil war criminals to go unpunished.
Neither the rightist or leftist governments that have held power since have managed to change this.
El Salvador’s defense minister recently assessed that there are more gang members than soldiers in his country. Police in El Salvador are extremely aggressive in pursuing them, and civilians can get caught in the crossfire, Human Rights Watch finds.
The resulting dangerous disarray sent 46,800 residents to seek asylum in the U.S. last year. Risking the unknown violence of migration over guaranteed violence at home is, for many Salvadorans, a logical decision.
Human security
Crime and violence in El Salvador has declined since President Nayib Bukele took office in June 2019, according to the government.
The president credits his tough-on-gangs policing with improving security in the country. But some crime analysts say the apparent drop in homicides is actually a manipulation of crime data. The government recently changed how it counts murders, eliminating deaths that result from confrontation with security forces – police killings – from the homicide category.
In any case, levels of violence in El Salvador are still among the world’s highest.
Police regularly turn a blind eye to violence by gang members, including both MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs, either due to corruption or concern for their own safety. As a result, Salvadoran police frequently fail to meaningfully protect people from gang violence.
In these circumstances, deporting Salvadoran asylum-seekers may violate an international law called “non-refoulement.”
According to the 1954 United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, which both the U.S. and El Salvador signed, states cannot expel refugees to a territory “where his life or freedom would be threatened.”
Migrants know El Salvador can’t protect them. That, of course, is why they flee. Now the United States government has to know that, too.
This story has been modified to more accurately characterize the methodology used by Human Rights Watch. It is an updated version of an article originally published Oct. 10, 2019.The Conversation
Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Rolling Stone
POLITICS LISTS
MARCH 31, 2020
Climate Enemies: The Men Who Sold the World
The CEOs, oilmen, financiers, politicians, and ideologues who are robbing us of a stable climate
By RYAN BORT
Climate change is going to dramatically alter life on the planet in the coming decades. Just how dramatically will depend on how aggressively governments and businesses move to correct the practices that over the past century have filled the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Unfortunately, some bad actors are not only failing to address the crisis, they’re actively exacerbating it. Here’s a list of America’s worst offenders, from fossil-fuel industry magnates, to investment gurus, to the president himself.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
Trump has been a godsend for the fossil-fuel industry, gutting the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior while stocking each agency with former fossil-fuel-industry executives and lobbyists. He has auctioned off millions of acres of public land to oil-and-gas drilling and rolled back close to 100 environmental regulations, paving the way for 200 million more tons of carbon to be pumped into the atmosphere per year. But Trump insists he’s one of the good guys. “I’m an environmentalist,” he said last fall after bailing on a climate-focused meeting of the G-7. “A lot of people don’t understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most people.”
Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the EPA
Since taking the helm of the EPA in 2018, Wheeler has curtailed the agency’s ability to use scientific data when establishing regulations, rolled back clean-water protections that prevented polluters from dumping chemicals in streams and wetlands, and waged campaigns to strip numerous emissions regulations — from checks on methane to tailpipe-exhaust restrictions in California. He came to the EPA after spending years as a fossil-fuel-industry lobbyist. “Wheeler is the embodiment of the anti-regulatory ‘deep state’ in Washington,” Ken Cook, president of the nonprofit advocacy organization Environmental Working Group, told us in 2018. “He’s playing the long game. And that’s exactly what makes him so dangerous.”
Rupert Murdoch, International Media Mogul
The billionaire executive chair of News Corp. and founder of Fox News, Murdoch started a network of media properties that has been instrumental in the propagation of climate-change skepticism, both in America and abroad. As climate-fueled wildfires decimated his home country of Australia, Murdoch’s outlets spread disinformation — The Australian dismissed the fires as “nothing new.” It’s even worse in the U.S., whereFox News has been a platform for climate deniers for years. In 2019 alone, its guests called climate science “fake,” argued the climate is bound to change “with the Earth rotating at 1,000 miles per hour,” and claimed that pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere couldn’t be bad because “we exhale carbon dioxide.”
Robert Mercer, The Mercer Family Foundation
Billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who directs the Mercer Family Foundation, have spread millions of dollars across America’s most influential climate-science-denying groups, including the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute. Tax filings made public in December showed they scaled back such donations in 2018, but they did send more than $8 million to Donors Trust, a Koch-funded dark-money group, and $300,000 to the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, whose founder Arthur Robinson, an “alt-science” pioneer, once said increasing CO2 levels would result in a “host of beneficial effects” for the environment.
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
The “Oracle of Omaha” is a little shortsighted when it comes to the climate crisis. The billionaire financial guru has long been pumping money into the fossil-fuel industry, and it doesn’t look like he has plans to stop. In 2019, Buffett invested $10 billion in Occidental Petroleum’s interest in the Permian Basin, marveling to CNBC how “incredible” it is that the region is producing 4 million barrels of oil a day. He’s rationalized his climate-killing investments by arguing that his first priority is to enrich his shareholders, not save the environment. Nevertheless, Buffett has described the climate crisis as “an incredibly important subject.” Thanks for your concern, Warren.
Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries
Koch Industries pumped more than 25 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2017, according to a University of Massachusetts study, more than Chevron, BP, and a host of other fossil-fuel-industry powerhouses. Charles, 84, and his brother David (who died in 2019) began funding climate denial long before the crisis went mainstream. In 1991, Charles’ Cato Institute hosted a conference for skeptics titled “Global Environmental Crisis: Science or Politics?”They continued to work to prevent congressional action on climate change for decades, founding and funding anti-science advocacy groups like Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners. As Kochland author Christopher Leonard wrote for The New York Times in 2019, the Kochs’ “unrivaled” political influence machine “has been employed to great effect to ensure that no government action is taken to control greenhouse gas emissions.”
Myron Ebell, US President Trump's environment advisor, leaves number 10 Downing Street after meeting with government officials.Myron Ebell meeting at Downing Street, London, UK - 31 Jan 2017
Myron Ebell, Professional Climate-Change Skeptic
Ebell has made a career out of casting doubt on climate science (though he has no scientific training himself), most notably through his role at the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank that has taken millions from the fossil-fuel industry. In 2016, he led Trump’s transition team at the EPA, helping to put in place a team to dismantle Obama’s policies, and he has continued to advocate for harmful rollbacks like replacing the landmark Clean Power Plan with weaker regulations.
Robert Murray Robert Murray, chief executive of Ohio-based Murray Energy Corp., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Huntington, Utah. Murray Energy alleges in an Illinois lawsuit against rival Williamson Energy LLC that after it shared its confidential business plans with Williamson during a deal that later fizzled, Williamson used the proprietary details to buy up enough southern Illinois land to thwart the accuser's expansion plansCoal Mining Lawsuit, Huntington, USA
Robert Murray, Founder of Murray Energy
The founder and former CEO of Murray Energy saw his coal behemoth — which, as America’s largest privately owned coal company, produced 76 million tons of coal annually — go bankrupt in 2019, but Murray’s influence extends beyond his floundering dirty-energy company. For years, he pumped money into a diverse portfolio of conservative groups that continue to push disinformation about the climate crisis. Murray also had an oversize influence on Trump’s climate policy, donating $300,000 to his inaugural committee before handing the president a literal wish list of rollback requests, many of which were dutifully carried out by the administration.
Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, United States Senators from Florida
Florida is one of America’s most vulnerable states when it comes to climate change, but you wouldn’t know it from how its Republican senators have punted on the issue. When he was governor, Scott even had the words “climate change” and “global warming” removed from official reports. Though both men took a small step forward in 2019 by acknowledging climate change is real, they both bashed the Green New Deal and prescribed, as Rubio put it, “adaptive” solutions to a “manageable” problem. This is to say: solutions that don’t upset the fossil-fuel industry. Rubio and Scott both have a 100-percent approval rating from the Koch-backed climate-denial group Americans for Prosperity.
United States Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National HarborConservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),Oxon Hill, USA - 29 Feb 2020
David Bernhardt, United States Secretary of the Interior
Since joining Trump’s Department of the Interior, Bernhardt has shown complete deference to the wishes of the extractive industries that he long served as a fossil-fuel-industry lobbyist (clients included Halliburton and the U.S. Oil and Gas Association). In 2018, he led an effort to strip protections from 9 million acres of the imperiled sage-grouse habitat, opening up the land to oil drilling. More recently, his department has worked to lease portions of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for, you guessed it, more drilling — a decision so destructive that even a number of major banks have vowed not to fund oil-and-gas operations there. Executives with the Independent Petroleum Association of America, one of Bernhardt’s former clients, were recorded in 2017 bragging of their “direct access” to Bernhardt and of having “conversations with him about issues ranging from federal land access to endangered species.”
William HapperMeetings at Trump Tower, New York, USA - 13 Jan 2017Physicist William Happer arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, New York, USA, 13 January 2017. US President Elect Donald Trump is still holding meetings upstairs at Trump Tower as he continues to fill in key positions in his new administration.
William Happer, Scientist and Climate Denier
An 80-year-old professor emeritus of physics at Princeton, Happer has deep ties to the Heartland Institute, one of the most influential pushers of climate denial in the U.S. In 2018, he joined Trump’s National Security Council, but his plans to discredit the government’s own climate reports were so extreme the White House rejected them for fear they might hurt Trump’s ability to get re-elected. Happer resigned from the administration in 2019, but the man who once compared the demonization of CO2 to the “demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler” hasn’t quit pushing climate denial. He appeared at a Heartland Institute forum to counter the U.N.’s climate conference last December, where he called the climate movement “a bizarre environmental cult.”
Jim Inhofe, United States Senator from Oklahoma
The longtime Republican senator literally wrote the book on climate denial (The Greatest Hoax) and is best known for presenting a snowball on the Senate floor as evidence that climate change isn’t real. The 2015 stunt is only the tip of the rapidly melting iceberg. Inhofe, who has introduced bills to gut the EPA (which he once likened to the Gestapo and, in 2017, claimed was “brainwashing our kids”) and been a regular fixture at high-profile climate-denial conferences, now has a network of disciples carrying out his agenda.
EPA head Andrew Wheeler used to work in Inhofe’s office, as did the agency’s chief of staff, Mandy Gunasekara, who encouraged Trump to leave the Paris Agreement. “It gives me comfort,” Inhofe told The Washington Post of his former staffers who are now influencing Trump’s environmental policy. What’s fueling Inhofe’s climate denial? In 2012, he cited the Book of Genesis, arguing that humans aren’t “able to change what [God] is doing in the climate.” It could also be that he’s received more than $2 million in donations from fossil-fuel interests over the course of his congressional career, with his biggest donors being Koch Industries and Murray Energy.
Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners
Billionaire Texan and Republican mega-donor Kelcy Warren is the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (which extends the DAPL into Texas), and several other terminals across North America. The DAPL and the ETCO have sprung several leaks — including a 4,998-gallon spill in Tennessee in 2017 — while another pipeline, Rover, spilled 2 million gallons of drilling fluid into Ohio wetlands, one of several of that pipeline’s environmental violations. Warren has pushed to expand despite the leaks — including a move to double the capacity of the Dakota Access — and quipped in 2018 that two activists who drilled holes in an empty pipeline should be “removed from the gene pool.”
Daniel Jorjani, Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior
Jorjani first worked for the DOI during George W. Bush’s presidency, a tenure that included a stint counseling for Deputy Secretary Lynn Scarlett, who in 1997 compared environmentalism to Marxism in its restriction of individual rights. He later went to work for the Charles Koch Institute and served as a general counsel for the Koch-funded Freedom Partners, which doled out millions to conservative politicians and causes, including deregulating the fossil-fuel industry. Since joining Trump’s DOI as solicitor, Jorjani has issued several controversial legal opinions, including one allowing mining companies to set up shop near Minnesota’s Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness, which had been protected under the Obama administration, and another shielding energy companies whose operations killed protected birds. “The way Interior has acted under the Trump administration is the textbook definition of a political cartel, using state resources to help special interests,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. “It sure looks to me like Mr. Jorjani has been a key member of the cartel.”
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Villains 9/30/14
EVIL
Abramoff
Abrams, F atty
ACSH Whelan
ATI
Berman
BKSH
Blunt, R Sen
Borelli, T (cfact)
Campus Watch Acc in Academia Horowitz (aipac)
Crisis Mgmt/risk assessments
Crypto
Entine
GloCliSci Comm Action Plan
Horner
Hunton & Williams
Inhofe
Issa
Milloy
NCPPR Ridenour
Singer
Stratfor?/Pvt Intel
Syngenta
Tobacco (PM, lorrilard?)
Tozzi
Vitter
secondary:
CORE/Innis/Pjt 21/NBCC alford
Graham -->tozzi (Harv Ctr risk anal/Stare → Whelan)
Pastoor
Seitz
Town Hall
Vanguard
Wackenhut?
CRYPTO:
Berman
Borelli
Chesser
Captitol Res Ctr
Ctr for Am Freedom
Cohen Bonner
CFACT
Cornwall Alliance/ICES
Center for Consumer Freedom
DDC pr ASTRO?API
Franklin Ctr for Gov't/Montana Statesman (fake news see CNS, PRnewswire)
Maverick Strategies (berman)
Media Research Ctr
Milloy
Sam Adams/O'Keefe, Odom, TP
Western Journalism Ctr/WND
secondary:
60 Plus
ABAWatch
BBI
Ctr for Environental Justice
Ctr for Organizational Research
Environmental Policy Alliance
Envirotruth
Free Ent Action Fundraiser
Heidelberg
International Policy Network
Interfaith Stewardship Alliance
IFF
MacIver Institution
National assoc of scholars
NCPPR Rideour (abramoff, pjt 21)
NIPCC
Pjt on Fair representation (Aff action, voter rights)
Scanlon, T
Schnare
Sludge
STATS (entine)
Team Themis
Third Way (mod dems?)
bogus Watchdogs
Climate Strategies Watch
National Wilderness Institution
DIRTY TRICKS
Opposition Research
gerrymandering
negative ads
Dezenhall/Edelmann?)
Russo
Bolling
from end:
RIDENOUR NCPPR
BERMAN
ROVE
AILES
BLUNT
BLACKWATER
WHELAN ACSH
CHENEY
Eric O'Keefe/Odom Sam Adams
Citizens United: Floyd Brown, Bossie (Donatelli) Bopp?
Horowitz
Meese
Jesse Helms (Apartheid, contras?)
Allbaugh
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TIMELINE
WHAT IF not been taken out by dirty tricks and elected president:
Eugene McCarthy 1968 never attacked? never a threat? siphoned support from real threats? later endorsed RR over JC. RFK dead.
1971: Rove drops out of college to devote full time to College Republicans, where he becomes protégé of dirty trickster Lee Atwater, the group's Southern regional coordinator. Rove becomes executive director, then national chairman.
1972: rove Under mentorship of dirty trickster Donald Segretti (who later went to jail for Watergate), Rove paints McGovern as "left-wing peacenik," in spite of McGovern's World War II stint piloting a B-24. Rove also works as staff assistant to George Bush Sr., then chairman of Republican National Committee (RNC).
Muskie: supported Affirmative Action, asked how many minorities in Maine?, staffer made a joke about Canucks (Clawson not Stone) NHUL also published slurs on wife. Broder says journalism fail.
McGovern: L Goldberg 1972 infiltrated (Goldberg, "groovy,... she checks out") McGovern and Humphrey (Sedan Chair ii) by having a GOP staffer get job as driver to feed info to CREEP.
Eagleton: shock therapy (stomach problems led to drunk accusations), bowed out replaced by Shriver.
McCloskey: Stone sends 200 dollars to the Young Socialist Alliance in Pete McCloskey's name. 1972 Mom's a scrappy delegate: opposed Nixon on VN, co-chair first Earth Day 180, revolt of the elders to take out Pombo.
1980 RR beats Carter w/ help of R democrats that stone helped turn; Atwater strategist, wedge So dems
1984 RR beats Mondale Ferraro (husband slimed?) Cranston, McG, Hart
1988 Dukakis Willie Horton Atwater. Hart: Monkey Business, warned of 911, opposed Gulf 2
1990's: kyoto, rio, 1994 takeover, BTU
1992 Clinton-Gore best bush1 (desert storm)
1996 Clinton-G beat Dole/Kemp Perot
2000 Gore: Brooks bros Stone, Tenn CTT; If won, No Gulf 2, Gt Recession? ~AGW Halib Loophole
2004 Swift Boat takes out Kerry
2008 Obama beats McCain/Palin
STONE:
Overview:
Stone probably something of a true believer, but also just a bully in it for the bloodsport, perhaps like pal Atwater. The evil/apocalypse that will surely come of a liberal win also legitimates dirty tricks/"hardball."
Maybe it's generational; what creates the opening/different mirror strategy? 50'60's First gen was Goldwater, but it could capitalize on Powell Memo start of RWI (who funded YAF? Vigurie direct mail). 1.5 was YR/IFF: rove, atwater (bksh), rove?
Gingrich: came out of marginalized academia; he'd lost 2-3x till adopted by party. extended insurrection/rebel into 90's and into the congress. Norquist runs the pledge scam; weds meetings hub for other IE; Rove runs eternal campaign for dubya in Tx then DC
70's: Carter outsider status, post-watergate rout (campaign finance reform). Earth Day; conservative take over southern Baptist and NRA (Wreck crew)
:{80's Rex Reagan kitchen cabinet; Iran-Contra; forced to fire Watt; heritage wrote the bible/blueprint, but [2001 Mercatus] ) atwater; heartland ipcc and GCC started; montreal protocol; b1 pres 1988 (dragged to rio, did little after? comm NAS?); 1981 Abramoff heads College Rep. Dartmouth: 1st strike now"; CR becomes rentamob to do stunts to please rich old guys?
Norquist #2 “wishy-washy country-clubbers” and resume -padders. Norquist pledge is essentially a protection racket. They staked out different territories (Reed the South, evangelicals?) Abramoff}:
perpwalk in fedora (had bought meyer Lansky memorabilia).
Abramoff gets paid to fix a problem for an indian tribe, then Norquist (ney? Reed) gets paid by the other party [check Trump and Stone?]
Amy Moritz-->Ridenour harv public health phd w/ sugar king Stare.
crypto center for env justice, screws over black ppl and native americans, (rolls to EEI http://www.nationalcenter.org/eptf.html) Pjt 21 gets busted when pillbury doughboy Almasi has to stand in when front tom Mychal Massie gets flat tire; rentanegro for racist conf of O'Keefe pal marcus karate chop; Amy R heavily involved in Abramoff network/scams; funded the famous Scotland golf trip to meet Thatcher (or similar one). amy ran against jack amd GN, got her to drop out in return for exec dir title, he spent 10K on election?[college republicans?]
Evil b/c NCPPR will jump in when others bail, eg voter ID, chides defectors. Linked to Borelli who tried to hijack/staunch shareholder revolts: rear guard action: avant derierre (thank tom)
90's Gingrich takeover 1994; Clinton-Gore neutralized: 95-5 kyoto vote; BTU rolled; 1998 API secret doubt memo GCSCT Candice Crandall
2000 rise of the oligarchs: Koch, Adelson; Bush steals election from Gore (promised to act on ghg); hires corp flaks to run regulatory agencies eg Griles; Mercatus drafted the wishlist on which regs to kill?
2010 Eric O'Keefe/Odom might be better IE? TP
Horner, Noble
STONE: POLITICAL OPERATIVE (, Ailes, Rove, Atwater, Floyd Brown? James O'Keefe, Odom,
STONE Born in Connecticut in early Fifties, when it was a bastion of moderate (even progressive?) GOP (a few remnants have escaped the RINO hunters, but Snow retired; RGGI NJ Christie bailed; POW Gv. Lepage).
William F. Buckley’s 1965 mayoral campaign
Stone claims first dirty trick was telling other kids that Nixon would make them go to school on Saturday (same election that Rove got beat up by a girl JFK supporter?). Engineered a coup at Westchester NY high school (Abramoff later hot dogs it).
Conversion b/c of Goldwater book, along with whole generation, College Republicans, YAF etc. worked in the 1964 campaign (at 12?) took the train? dad blue collar, wrong side of tracks,
Stone specialized in turning out ethnic (white?) groups in NE, the start of Reagan democrats (that is getting the poor and working/lower middle class to vote against their own interests [Atwater: Nigger, Nigger, Nigger!]? (5 jags now, chaffeur)
Claims moderate NE GOP John Davis Lodge was his mentor (actor [shirley Temple, M Dietrich] turned governor Connecticut; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, ancestor George Cabot); Lodge was governor and later delegate to RNC. Lost governorship b/c Fairfield Cty bluebloods pissed at hwy construction, later named for him. In 1951 persuaded Ike to run as gop; 1952 Lodge lost senate race to JFK (in 1916 his grandfater beat John F “Honey Fitz” Fitgerald; to add insult to injury, Lodge's son George lost race to Teddy). Left UN ambassador position (grandpa opposed League of nations) to run as Nixon VP 1960. [His wife: The Frelinghuysens have managed to rack up so many oligarchical appearances in Washington that as a family they rank seventh in the “dynasties” of America just behind the Adams (at five) and the Bushes (at six). Current? NJ governor one of few GOP to believe in global warming].
Stone met RMN 1967; Invited future Watergater Jeb Magruder to speak to College Republicans at George Washingrton U, then hit him up for a job (did hit piece in his obit for Fox; so much for loyalty). Magruder 2nd to plead guilty in Watergate; became a minister, as did ...
1968 Nixon Stone worked for Committee for the Re-Election of the President.
(CREEP), claims youngest; mentored by Charles Colson, known as the "evil genius," ''walk over my own grandmother'' to get Richard Nixon re-elected. served seven months for obstruction of justice during Watergate era, for break-in to Ellesberg psychitrist office in an attempt to discredit him through character assassination (MO of CREEP, he was not caught in the Muskie caper); Colson also advocated setting a fire at the Brooking Institution thinktank to grab documents [Ellsberg report on VN ] (Brookings used to be considered liberal; we didn't cross the border, it crossed us]
Colson? used Teamster connections to order attack on hippies. Shenanigans to get Wallace into or out of primaries, depending in what would help Nixon. Colson odered a search of wallace assassin house to find evidence that dems were behind it (or alternatively to get rid of evidence that gop was?). Flash forward: Jeb Bush purged thousands of voters from Florida in the guise of eliminating voter fraud, won by 537 when Stone and BBR shut down recount. Jeb did grant clemency to Colson so he could vote.
Colson ordered by Nixon to compile the enemies list (Bill Cosby, Paul Newman); Smear Anderson as queer, then kill him. Wallace assassin;
1972 Stone infiltrated (Goldberg told them she was writing a book?, "groovy,... she checks out") McGovern and Humphrey by having a GOP staffer get job as driver to feed info to CREEP. Muskie Canuck Letter, tears resign; Stone sends 200 dollars to the Young Socialist Alliance in Pete McCloskey's name.
1976 President Ford campaign vs Carter (by Laxalt?)
1977 claims elected Chair Young Republicans National Convention (opd front YR ran ads for iran contra http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/
1978 NCPAC is the beginning of the dark ages of polarized negative politics (heightened later by Newts blowing up the culture of Congress).
NCPAC was created to take advantage of a loophole that limited contributions to $1,000 under the guise of independent expenditures (though we see in even current times these are often run by one and future staffers of polituical consutants of a politician). Double whammy because lots of money could be raised, but it could be used to attack without damage: NCPAC Chairman Terry Dolan (BKSH; closeted gay man who died of AIDS) was quoted as saying, "A group like ours could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean. Test run 1978 (direct mail) , 1980 Targets winnowed to five, including McGovern and Church (who outed the CIA), Cranston and Eagleton survived. Bozell took over, but basically elbowed out by imitators, but later spawned 537 Swift Boat. Stone moves on the BKSH/BMSK.
bs: "In 1978, Stone co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) where he is credited with developing the negative campaign into an art form and pioneering the use of negative campaign advertising which Mr. Stone calls "comparative, educational, not negative."
1980 RR beat Carter & 1984 RR (stone: Roy Cohn [mafia, Joe McCarthy] got him to put John Anderson on NY ballot to split votes, bribed someone, RR got 46%) Helms considered for VP?
1984 RR& B1 vs Mondale/Ferraro (husband biz scrutinize, clean? her ancestors ran numbers) Rollins, Atwater #2
1986-ish helped Ollie North raise money for Contras (death squads) in Nicaragua. (Spitz Channell/Dolan closeted?)
1988 Bush 1 vs Dukakis: Lee Atwater manager, Stone a cosultant: Willie Horton ad (Stone claims he was against it]. Kitty Dukakis accused of burning flag, treated for mental illness (Movak claims he refused to spread latter) B2 put in the office across the hall to learn. Pledge of Allegiance (card-carrying member? Boston Harbor scams; After win, Atwater Chair RNC; Gay Tom Foley, Atwater starts pre-emptively beating up Clinton as threat. Howard univ protest, Atwater and college? president quit. Diagnosis 1990, died 1991.
Roger and his wife Ann Stone divorced in 1991
1992 B Clinton-Gore wins over Bush 41 and Perot. 1992 - Phony Buchanan baby story hurts Pat in 1992 and in 2000, Stone denied involvement.
Stone had to quit Dole/Kemp 1996 b/c of swinger mag ads with photos and her measurments reprinted in National Enquirer (denied, elaborate story of employee break-in, perhaps to account for his credit card being used, later much admitted).vs another version: 1996 Bob Dole, fired Stone after Jack Anderson outed him on dirty tricks [Nixon people seriously discussed killing Anderson, including dosing his steering wheel with LSD].
1996 Stone hired to beat sugar tax for everglades restoration 1cent/lb [Inhofe only one to vote agaihst Everglade restoration?]
Trump 2000 $250K fine for not reporting lobbying expenses (trying to prevent Mohawk tribe from building casinos).
2000 Florida: Stone claims that Jim Baker called him and asked to help in Miami-Dade, the biggest county; Elian Gonzales aftermath (Clinton admin had returned him to Cuba), Cuban exhile version of Rush, Radio Mambi , puts his wife ( Nydia and her mother Olga ) on the air claiming Gore is trying to steal the election; live from scene; eavesdropped on Dems walkie-talkie. 11/22 got word that 2-300 ballots being removed, but turned out it was one; riot did suceed in shutting down the recount [long enough for SCTUS to end it permanently?](most were Spanish? [the locals were backedup by staffers who flew down to Miami on Enron and Halliburton jets, thus dubbed Brooks Brithers Riot (many went on to get plum jobs); post masquerade party?]); Toobin says Cheney caledto thank Stone and asked what he wanted;
Stone begins a recvall of Flordia Democatic State Suprme Court justices, FEC looks into it.
later Stone said he regretted because of Gulf 2 dead:
"There have been many times I've regretted it,” Stone told me over pizza at Grand Central Station. “When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, 'Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't gone to Miami-Dade. Maybe there hadn't have been, in my view, an unjustified war if Bush hadn't become president.' It's very disturbing to me."
Cruise ships:
K street gang Adam Kidan went to jail for fraud, as did Jack Abramoff, Kidan with Stone bought 90% stake but never paid, Boulis still wanted to run it? Kidan felt in danger, spent $200K to mob for security? sued Gus Boulis, SunCruz, told Ferrari to kill Boulis? Killed in 2001
2002-4 $8-13 million for lobbying on gaming? Miwok, Pomo (transition team at BIA?! Dirty tricks on officials?)
2003 Sharpton (helped him make 20 state 5K bar?) Went after Dean?
2004 RatherGate:
complicated? Rather was right, but the documents he had were recreations? Blogger MacDougald (pol operative, SE Legal, EPA, Clinton, Scaife] started attack that font was not used at the date but later proved wrong? Rather stands by the story, the documents have never been proved to be fake. Bush 43 said he could not recall having seen them before. Ratherm who inherited Walter Cronkeit anchor chair is forced to resign? Context: After decades of being beaten up for not being patriotic/pro-military enough, Kerry runs in part on war hero status, which is in stark contrast to Dubya's dad pulling strings to get his chickenhawk son a deferment (Cheney, five deferments (this came up briefly in 2000 as Gore served; Rumsfeld Navy flight instructor; not Feith, Wolfie or other Gulf 2 cheerleaders)
Terry McAuliffe wondered if TANG docs could be plant that could then be denounced (this was a technique previously used by __;and later by Syngenta?). The woman who gave the docs to Burkett resembled Nydia?
2008 (Obama beats McCain) Stone had his own organization called Citizens United Not Timid, also anti-Hillary. Now too tainted for presidentail campaign?
2008 Hired by GOP New York Senate head (majority leader, Spitzer butted heads with, eg using helicopters for private use) Joe Bruno to get Eliot Spitzer, the Sherriff of Wall Street (though Stone had to stop working for Bruno after leaving a profanity-laced message on Elliot's dad Bernard Spitzer’s phone about how he was going to bring his son down) . Spitzertried to prevent Richard Grasso, the CEO of the NY Stock Exchange, from retiring with a package worth $140 million. Grasso had made lots of friends, including Hank Greenberg (Spitzer's investigation into his fraud at AIG led to his quitting) and Ken Langone (co-founder of Home Depot and a former director of the NY Stock Exchange responsible for putting together Grasso’s retirement package). A Florida blogger says tyat Stone bragged about enlisting thir help to take out Spitzer; Stone also claimed he tipped off the FBI which led to Spitzer's resignation. Spitzer was Manhataan DA (ended Gambino family control over Manhattan's garment and trucking ) , then New York State Attorney General and previously as a Federal U.S. Attorney, then elected governor in 2007, resigned March 2008.
2010: The madame/prostitiute was Kirstin Davis, previously a fundraiser for former Representative Richard A. Gephardt ; Stone later ran her campaign for governor as a Libertarian, legalize pot and prostitition, (had a role on Sex and the City; claimed to procure prostitutes for ES; she jailed for prost 2008); her primary opponent Redlich he accused of being a child molester (though Stone claims Roy Cohn was not gay, just liked to have sex with young blond boys). She planned to run 2013 for Comptroller but convicted of selling drugs.
Paladino vs Cuomo (accused of anti-Semite)
Stone ironically went libertarian (pot, sex, big brother) but then vendetta w/ NY party?
w/ BKSH unleashed all kinds of racist/homophobe on politics for decades (some powerful congressional chairs),
including Senators Phil Gramm (with lobbyist wife Wendy cued up the 2008 Great Recession), Jesse Helms (racist, death squads; Senator No” to: food stamps, civil rights, disability rights, feminism, gay rights, including AIDS research funding, affirmative action, abortion), Atwater backed Thurmond (racist who fathered a black daughter)
also Tobacco Institute, ADM (doubt strategy ? AGW). NAM front to counter Claen Air Act. CoC on tort reform; Blackwater (oil, pharma, defense contractors, nuclear)
Reagan 1980
Also dictators: Mohamed Siad Barre of Somalia (torture and murder of dissidents), Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (kleptocrat), Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (genocide), and Jonas Savimbi of Angola (prolonged civil war to retain power, thousands died), but turned down Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Iraqi National Congress and its head Ahmad Chalabi, helped the con that led to Gulf War 2 [sub-contractor for Lincolmn group who were paid by the Pentagon to put out good news stories on the war/psy-ops?!]($4 trillion, 4K KIA, 50K wounded, PTSD, TBI; 250K kia Iraqi, 4 million Syrian refugees) .
Tally: Nixon prolonged the Viet Nam war, eroded faith in government, Reagan ran up a huge debt, Latin American genocide, dismanted regulatory safeguards (environent, food, workplace?). Bush 1 did minimum on environment, cued up calamitous Bush 43. 400 dollar suits, garden parties, wife-swapping, five jags, threatens reporter.
ENTINE
BORELLI
STONE
NORQUIST
3.4.1 PR “Flacks”
In addition to public relations firms, there are independent "hired guns," ideological entrepreneurs who thrive in the “nutrient–rich” conservative infrastructure ecosystem, who can perform a variety of functions in various types of organizations important to the infrastructure.
A representative case study is Steven Milloy because he has worked as a lobbyist, and is an example of the different forms flacks can take; he has also been key to attempts to discredit global warming. He has received large sums from Philip Morris and Exxon, fighting attempts to limit and clean up pollutants. In addition, he has worked for the Cato Institute think tank, Philip Morris’ APCO PR firm, the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TAASC) front group, and he created the denier JunkScience blog. Moreover, Milloy is currently a Fox News pundit, and has also worked with another "flack" Myron Ebell (at the CTT Competitive Enterprise Institute) who helped the Bush 43 White House stymie global warning action (including funneling research, spin/damage control, lawsuits and fronts: e.g., the Cooler Heads Coalition, Wise Use, and the bogus Heartland Conferences). Presumably their connections with different sorts of organizations (industry, government, PR, media) make them information hubs akin to Norquist. Flacks are good at crafting messages, but they themselves have little credibility, particularly when their motives and sponsorships are revealed. Hence the need for front groups, affiliations with think tanks, and especially with reference to global warming, the use of hack scientific "experts."
MILLOY:
Promoted to evil, since he's going after moderating factors: corporate social responsibility (low bar/greenwash?), shareholder revolts, responsible investing (enviro and sweatshops). Plus rationalwiki and other site/tags devoted to him
According to Milloy's official biography, he holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center.(legit)
denies human evolution, at least doubt
Milloy denies being a lobbyist even [omg wiki talk page DCdave, ncdave4life] though he was registered as one in the late 90's (since?): Monsanto, API, EOP, FMC, (energy, chemicals, nuke )
Got his start in early 90's with Jim Tozzi 's Multinational Business Services (ex-RR OMB) secondhand smoke risk assessment, then president of his own organization called the "Regulatory Impact Analysis Project, followed soon therafter by Junk Science. Introduced key junk science vs "sound" science, key in doubt strategy.hidden agenda (sounds like conspiracy, rationalwiki says).
1997-8 TAASC (founded 1993 by APCO Phillip Morris, picked up by EOP Group) global warming, secondhand smoke, anti-tort, funded by Exxon, PM, P&Gamble, Dow, 3M etc, faded after 1998, perhaps because outed by NYTimes. claimed 2-300 scientists. Exxon stopped funding when busted by Senators Snowe Jay Rockefeller? ceo changed?
September 2001 published by the Cato Institute Press, "Junk Science Judo: Self Defense Against Health Scares and Scams, two previous similar ones also by Cato.[note: Stare, Whelan, Entine scam]
Agenda 21 Green Hell book Regnery Publishing, 2009 categoried as Political Science [another meme/scam that keeps getting fashionable/recycled]
Heartland: He is the author of several books and reports, including Choices in Risk Assessment: The Role of Science Policy in the Environmental Risk Management Process, a widely acclaimed publication that resulted from his work for the U.S. Department of Energy examining the relative roles of science and policy in regulatory risk assessment
Gleeful when Chafee died, making room for Inhofe as chair.(wrong?).
Having protued handsomely from lying about second-hand smoke and global warming, Milloy and many of the other hacks have caight the GMO/pesticide wave (though one of the claims of GMO's is that they would be cleverly designed to require fewer chemical imputs, they end up using more; in addition, all the seed companies have been bought up by a very small number of agro-chemical companies like Monsanto. See the Science Suppression section on the attack of hayes, but Milloy was involved; asked Syngenta:for (another?) $25K (suggests already getting regular pay of 15K?) and atrazine talking points, his articles published by Whelan's NCPPR.
["Milloy has called Hayes a "Berserkeley atrazine-hater" and has repeatedly attacked Hayes' scientific findings publicly. The Fox blogger has even gone so far as to accuse Hayes of lying about how he conducted the experiments: "We can't even be sure the concentrations of atrazine in the lab tanks are what Hayes' claims."
In the same blog post, called "Freaky-Frog Fraud," Milloy asserts that "Hayes seems to be determined to scare the public about atrazine."]
His latest venture is to attack socially responsible corporations, since these at least make nornal greed look bad, and at best they offer a new model. See Entine and Borelli; the financial equivalent of this is a green investment fund. This may just be a money-making scam, since they can skim off profits (and make money on losses as well?) but one has to think for them and the funders alike is to prove that green investing cannot compete.(well, in fact they proclain it explicitly:
FEAF Investors : Dunn (CEI, PERC?, Reason fdn), Susquahanna, Tom Phillips (Eagle Publ), JQ Wilson (Randoph), Levy (with Gough at Cato), Donors Trust Koch
The Free Enterprise Action Fund is a mutual fund whose goal is "to keep businesses focused on business rather than activist-defined CSR, the Fund aims to promote more generally our system of free enterprise. The Fund will direct advocacy and education efforts at corporate managements, institutional shareholders, the media and the public." Pimped for it at ICCC 2008. sweatshops?
Underperformed S&P index by 50%, but charges above avg 2% fees. 2006 6 million$.
"Mr. Milloy is one of the directors of the Free Enterprise Education Institute, along with Thomas J. Borelli and Deneen Moore Borelli. The FEEI sponsors the website CSRWatch/SRIWatch, a site devoted to opposing the corporate social responsibility movement as being too economically costly, and the Free Enterpriser online publication. According to the FEEI’s 2005 IRS Form 990, their total operating expenses over several years equaled approximately $477,000, of which $355,000 was paid to “Steven J. Milloy” of Potomac, Maryland for consulting services. The next highest expense for FEEI was for “website expenses,” presumably for CSRWatch/SRIWatch. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Borelli are both associated with National Center for Public Policy Research, Mr. Borelli as a senior fellow for the Center in general and Mrs. Borelli as a senior fellow for the Center’s Project 21. Mr. Borelli used to work as Philip Morris’ director of scientific affairs and Mrs. Borelli used to be his secretary at Philip Morris"
FEEI exxon $780K 2005 Mr. Milloy and Mr. Borelli (and Mrs. Borelli too, via her husband) have worked together and in parallel since at least 1993
Shareholder suits against US CAP, Apple? GE Immelt.
Flipped Immelt? USCAP? uscap created secifically to boost W-M, so no implosion/defection? crypto dirty doz climate villain play; lots of press for anti-CSR, including ppl who shd know better? But numbers low/decline on GE shareholders? No obvious changes at GE? big funder of mtntop? one of few not to examine?
embraces the term "denier"
"Milloy and other aggressive deniers practice a form of asymmetric warfare that is decentralized and largely immune to reasoned response. They launch what Aaron Huertas, a press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists, calls “information missiles,” anti-climate-change memes that get passed around on listservs, amplified in the blogosphere, and picked up by radio talk-show hosts or politicians. “Even if they don’t have much money, they are operating in a structure that allows them to punch above their weight,” Huertas says."..."Mann calls Milloy “a valueless, all-purpose denier for notorious industries who need a hired gun.” But Milloy, like others in the movement, says that he’s fighting an existential war with forces that would, without his intervention, steal the American way of life. “This whole green thing, the whole environmental scare industry, is really just an ingenious plan to exert government control over everything we do,” Milloy says. “I have yet to see an environmental scare that is remotely true when it comes to human health. Secondhand smoke, air quality, ozone depletion, pesticides, superfund sites—you name it....."
Milloy? and Morano publish email addresses of climate scientists and make bogus bet/offers? Mann got cornstarch in the mail. (popsci 6/12)
adjunct scholar Cato 1990-2005? He met Murdoch when latter was slumming at Cato, given access to Fox
"In August 2005 Media Matters for America reported that Milloy (who is not a scientist himself) had self-published a deceptive "study" purporting to show that radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building were 65 times higher than the proposed standards for the federal government's planned high-level radioactive waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain. [5]"
"Writing in The New Republic in January 2006 Paul Thacker noted Milloy's long-term, close relationships with corporations, including ExxonMobil and Philip Morris. "According to Lisa Gonzalez, manager of external communications for Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, Milloy was under contract there through the end of last year," Thacker wrote. "But, whereas Scripps Howard fired Fumento and apologized to its readers, Fox News continues to look the other way as Milloy accepts corporate handouts," Thacker writes. Fox's Paul Schur told Thacker, "Fox News is unaware of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris." [4]"
RJR Project Breakthrough was to link tobacco regulation with Prohibition
DemandDebate? whole Gore coward scam/meme;
Live Earth beach balls, air raid; John Mayer trashed after.
no evidence any real effect on CSR
EBELL:
The second most prominent flack (PR for hire) behind Milloy is Myron Ebell (they have been known to team up).
always poised, seems to actually believe nonsense he spouts (first law of sales?), basically sits around CEI waiting to be called for pithy quote for “balance” whenever a lazy reporter covers climate (whereas Amy Ridenour really hustles).
Myron Ebell: Born Oregon, "Ebell graduated from Colorado College with a B.A. philosphy? and obtained an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He did some graduate work at the University of California at San Diego (philos) and at Peterhouse College, political theory at London School of Econ, Cambridge University (history, when?)."
Vanity Fair said outsider in UK, not willing to live on modest means of an academic, so returned to US
staffer to Shadegg (RSC head, AZ, 1994 takeover, beat Steptoe; wonder how he got gig; his wife from NM?); no college republican (usual route eg Rove et al)?
Frontiers of Freedom, founded 1996 by ex-senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyo. Basically Cliff Notes for legislators. Six areas, including property rights, Free mkt environmentalism, and science. Tobacco, Four Sisters and Exxon, funnelled lots of money to "sound Science" and "energy literacy" sort of morphed into a wanna-be think tank. Claims to have briefed Cheney, Rumy and Wolfie. Chris Horner 2010. Singer, Soon. Ebell reps at infamous Global Climate API Memo. When F of F issues Defender of Freedom award, swarm of calls of wannabe's. Observer at Kyoto negotiations? [Amy R?]
Cooler Heads Coalition 1997 (consortium of 23 think tanks?!) did what exactly? buffer/front? revived by Consumer Alert/National Consumer Coalition, usual suspects: With Marlo Lewis (cei, dad producer for ed sullivan). "Its website states: "The risks of global warming are speculative; the risks of global warming policies are all too real." [2]
Orginally the group was closely tied to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and still features many of its industry-friendly analyses of ecological issues. Former CEI director Marlo Lewis chaired the Cooler Heads Coaltion. Myron Ebell, CEI's Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy, directed it. In March 2001, the nonprofit Clean Air Trust named Ebell its "clean air villain of the month," citing his "ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide."
Taken over for a while by Consumer Alert, which faded. It's the usual suspects, but oddly no funding identified? It's not an industry trade/front group like GCC.
"C02, We Call it Life."
Ebell also called the UK's Chief Scientist David King "an alarmist with ridiculous views who knows nothing about climate change", and then added that since all scientists in Europe and in other countries outside the USA were funded by governments, none of them could be seen as independent.[6] censored by parliament (house of commons?)
With Inhofe, 2000 Ebell sued to suppress in B2 admin National Assessment that B1 had commissioned,
Cooney was climate lobbyist for API, hired by Connaughten for CEQ;
Cooney routed API BS study to Cheney and then Bush, gave cover for 180 on climate (campaign promise to neutralize Gore advantage, since Ozone Man by dad failed?)
law requires a Climate Action Report report sent to UN every (4?) years; 2002 Cooney added a bunch of caveats, but the NYT managed to reverse engineer out the hedges and said that global warming is real, thus big shift in policy. Panic ensued, and Ebell and even Rove brought in for damage control; B2 dismissed it as bureaucratic trifle. Cooney quits to spend more time with family; immediately hired by Exxon, tho not clear what job would be: "In an interview with the Guardian (UK), the US research director for Greenpeace, Kert Davies, said of Cooney's return to the oil industry that "the cynical way to look at this is that ExxonMobil has removed its sleeper cell from the White House and extracted him back to the mother ship." [14]"
Cooney rewrote science 180x?
2002 Ebell coordinated with Cooney after epic fuckup? He says someone has to take the fall, wants to get CTW?. two states' AG cry foul, but Ashcroft BBADG blows it off.
Ebell said GW is about rationing that will enrich eco-elite 49 picked up by Beck and Ventura.
"Ebell is also listed as the "director" of Freedom Action, a "grassroots movement" founded in 2009 by the CEI. Freedom Action believes in "individual rights," "free markets," "and limited governments." Links to three of Ebell's articles appear on the site including one that describes Al Gore as "the leader of the forces of darkness." All three of the articles were published by Fox News."
No chance of repentance, tho nice obscure Gulliver's Travels allusion. meme master?
Main gig is CEI, 2 million dollars Exxon, 16 mil on denial total (1998-05) 2005 270K$ of 3.7 mill. (vanity fair)
Ebell attacks Hansen's credentials as he's not a climatotologist (diss on atmosphere of venus)
OMG: odd twist on reality will win: attempts to reduce emissions will fail, Fossil Fuel consumption will increase; in fact that's the cure for global warming: get rich, invent technology, since we have 50 years in case it's true.
RIDENOUR NCPPR
BERMAN
ROVE
AILES
BLUNT
BLACKWATER
WHELAN ACSH
CHENEY
Eric O'Keefe/Odom Sam Adams
Citizens United: Floyd Brown, Bossie (Donatelli) Bopp?
Horowitz
Meese
Jesse Helms (Apartheid, contras?)
Allbaugh