Leaked Memo - Oil Lobby's 'Energy Citizens' Astroturf Campaign Exposed Before Launch

An internal memo obtained recently by Greenpeace USA details polluting interests' plans to launch a nationwide Astroturf campaign attacking climate legislation at public events scheduled... Full Story »

Posted by John Louden - via Huffington Post (Featured)
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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by John Louden - Aug 13, 2009 - 8:47 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Aug 14, 2009 - 12:27 AM PDT

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Aug. 15, 2009

Don’t you just love it when psychopaths running today’s corporations get caught with their hands in the till before they get their lying, distorting, faked hypocritical campaigns, complete with hooliganism and felonious acts, off the ground? Do these psychopaths understand the danger of their actions to the world’s future? Of course they do. Their philosophy is that they will be dead and gone, having spent their outrageous largesse, before the world collapses in climate crisis. So much for caring about future generations.

Scientists warn the world is further into global crisis than we know. But since no one seems to be seriously doing anything about it, we might as well enjoy the time we have left.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 14, 2009

The leaker and Greenpeace made it easy, but Grandia reports it well.

They buy legislators, now they want to make it look like citizens want to destroy themselves with runaway climate change. Have they no conscience?

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John Louden
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by John Louden - Aug. 18, 2009

Offers link to memo in question; points out that Greenpeace has attempted to verify that memo was from head of API (American Petroleum Institute).

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