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=<div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">The “Duchin formula” has become a Stratfor mainstay, carried on by Bart Mongoven. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Duchin passed away in 2010</a>.<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">In a <a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/33/33714_Suncor%20Presentation-1210.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">December 2010 PowerPoint presentation</a> to the oil company Suncor on how best to “deal with” anti-Alberta tar sands activists, Bart Mongoven explains how to do so explicitly utilizing the “radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists” framework. In that presentation, he places the various environmental groups fighting against the tar sands in each category and concludes the presentation by explaining how Suncor can win the war against them.<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">Bart Mongoven described the American Petroleum Institute as his “<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=414076" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">biggest client</a>” in a January 2010 email exchange, lending explanation to his interest in environmental and energy issues.<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">Mongoven also appears to have realized something was off about Chesapeake Energy’s financial support for the Sierra Club, judging by November 2009 <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">email</a> <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=404621" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">exchanges</a>. It took “idealists” in the environmental movement a full 2 ½ years to realize the same thing, after <a href="http://science.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Time magazine wrote a major investigation revealing the fiduciary relationship</a> between one of the biggest shale gas “fracking” companies in the U.S. and one of the country’s biggest environmental groups.<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">“The clearest evidence of a financial relationship is the note in the Sierra Club 2008 annual report that <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Ljl1l6QIa8sprn" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Clean Skies Foundation </a><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Ljl1l6QIa8sprn" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was a financial supporter that year</a>,” <a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote Mongoven in an email</a> to the National Manufacturing Association’s vice president of communications, Luke Popovich. “According to McClendon, American Clean Skies Foundation was created by Chesapeake and others in 2007.”<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">Bart Mongoven also used the “realist/idealist” paradigm to <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/crucial_year_climate_change_legislation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">discuss climate change legislation’s chances for passage in a 2007 article</a> on Stratfor’s website.<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">“Realists who support a strong federal regime are drawn to the idea that with most in industry calling for action on climate change, there is no time like the present,” Mongoven wrote. “Idealists, on the other hand, argue that with momentum on their side, there is little that industry could do in the face of a Democratic president and Congress, and therefore time is on the environmentalists’ side. The idealists argue that they have not gone this far only to pass a half-measure, particularly one that does not contain a hard carbon cap.”<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: small; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26.6px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important;">And how best to deal with “radicals” like Julian Assange, founder and executive director of WikiLeaks, and whistleblower Bradley Manning, who gave WikiLeaks the <a href="http://cablegatesearch.net/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">U.S. State Department diplomatic cables</a>, the <a href="http://wikileaks.org/irq/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Iraq</a>and <a href="http://wikileaks.org/afg/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Afghanistan war logs</a> and the “<a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); outline: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Collateral Murder</a>” video? Bart Mongoven has a simple solution to “isolate” them, as suggested by Duchin’s formula.</div><div></div><div>madsion:<div><h4 open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Anthony J. “A.J.” Ferate, J.D.</h4><p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Anthony J. “A.J.” Ferate has built a multi-faceted background in the areas of the law, policy, elections and defense over the last 20 years.<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">
<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Currently employed as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (“OIPA”), A.J. maintains responsibilities over all government efforts outside of the legislative branch on matters as broad as water, electric generation, commodity marketing, land matters and seismicity. A.J. also maintains responsibility for legal matters at OIPA.<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">
<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Prior to working for OIPA, A.J. managed public policy strategy for Fortune 500 Company Devon Energy. Other previous employment includes management of the Oklahoma City office of Ryan Glover LLP, a Houston-based energy law firm. A.J. also served as general counsel and chief financial officer of the American Clean Skies Foundation, where his primary responsibilities included all legal, financial, and policy matters of the Foundation.<p open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;">
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