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In reply to the discussion: Report: SecState candidate Rice "Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands" i.e. Keystone XL [View all]newspeak
(4,847 posts)after all halliburton was cheney's baby and he did a lot to help his favored corporation, especially with that secret energy meeting.
president carter was a visionary when it came to controlling our oil habit. some cannot possibly realize how much damage has been done in this country because of little boot's, especially cheney's policies to aid any and all multi-national oil and gas corporations. let's look at the real "newspeak", clean air act means that the oil and gas industries are exempt; clean water act also means that the same industries are exempt. and with fracking, the mass quantity of water that's used and the contamination of drinking water by these corporations is heinous. but, hey, their profit is worth more than our family's lives.
since the rules have been changed under little boots, she would have a say about the pipeline. those who think she'd recuse herself, did scalia and thomas recuse themselves from the supreme court decision between little boots and gore?
i want someone in the position who will be more interested in the well being of american citizens not their portfolio.